photo: Creative Commons / Madman2001
Pre-Columbian incense burner, Costa Rica (Carlos Museum)
photo: Creative Commons / Peterfitzgerald
Costa Rica regions
photo: AP / Ronald Reyes
Costa Rica's President Laura Chinchilla, right, sits with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) Jose Miguel Insulza after a meeting at the presidential palace in San Jose, Costa Rica, Saturday Nov. 6.
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The 1848 national coat of arms was featured in the first postal stamp issued in 1863
photo: AP / Kent Gilbert
Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias speaks to the press as he arrives for the Tuxtla Summit at the Hacienda Pinilla near Tamarindo, Costa Rica,Tuesday, July 28, 2009.
photo: Public Domain / Yourface91
Tortuguero, Costa Rica
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An anhinga drying its feathers
photo: Public Domain / Erodrigufer
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photo: US Navy / Steelworker 2nd Class Anthony Rizzo
Seabees build a playground in Costa Rica.
photo: AP / Kent Gilbert
A Costa Rican banana worker selects rejected bananas on the Select Fruits of the Tropics banana plantation near Parrita, Costa Rica, some 100 miles southwest of the capital of San Jose, Wednesday, July 6, 2005.
photo: WN / Sebastián Castillos
Costa Rica's defender taking Luis Suarez's shirt during the second period of the match that ended Uruguay 1 Costa Rica 1 for Worldcup Southafrica 2010 Qualifiers, Centenario Stadium, Montevideo, Uruguay, 18th November 2009
photo: Creative Commons / Guayacancr
Costa Rica Colibrì Amasilla Saucerrottei.
photo: AP / Ronald Reyes
Costa Rica's President-elect Laura Chinchilla greets students as she arrives for her inauguration ceremony as new president of Costa Rica at La Sabana Metropolitan Park in San Jose, Saturday, May 8, 2010.
photo: AP / Eduardo Di Baia)
Argentina's Lionel Messi stretches on the field as he attends a team training session with teammates in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday July 8, 2011. Argentina will face Costa Rica in a Group A Costa Rica game on Monday
photo: AP / Fernando Llano
Costa Rica's Joel Campbell gestures during a training session at El Campin stadium in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. Costa Rica will face Colombia in a U-20 World Cup round of sixteen soccer match on Tuesday.
photo: AP / Esteban Felix
Laura Chinchilla, presidential candidate for the National Liberation party, greets supporters outside the Virgen de los Angeles Basilica in Cartago, Costa Rica, Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010. Costa Rica will hold presidential, congressional and municipal elections on Sunday.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd
Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, left, and China's President Hu Jintao speak during a welcoming ceremony at the Presidential House in San Jose, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Hu Jintao is on an official two-day visit to Costa Rica.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis
Capt. Thomas Negus, commodore of Continuing Promise 2010, watches as U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica Anne Andrews delivers remarks during the opening ceremony of the Costa Rica phase of Continuing Promise 2010.
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Exterior of Lankester Botanical Gardens
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Orosí seen from the South Orosi is a town in the Cartago Province in Costa Rica, about 30 kilometers south of the capital San José. Orosi is situated on the Reventazón River in the Orosi Valley.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Christopher B. Stoltz
Ensign Becky Dickey helps paint a wall as part of a community relations project in Costa Rica.
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Chirripó National Park [3,819m][12,600ft] Highest peak in Costa Rica IUCN Category II (National Park)
photo: Creative Commons / Mariordo
Intel microprocessor facility in Costa Rica is responsible for 20% of Costa Rican exports and 4.9% of the country's GDP.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jonathen E. Davis
Sailors a move a fallen tree away from a local school during a community relations project in Limon, Costa Rica.
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In the hills near Orosi is a town in the Cartago Province in Costa Rica, about 30 kilometers south of the capital San José. Orosi is situated on the Reventazón River in the Orosi Valley. The cultivation of coffee is the leading industry in the area.
photo: AP / AP Photo/Kent Gilbert
US actor Mel Gibson listens to Costa Rica's President Oscar Arias, unseen, at Arias' home in San Jose, Monday, July 9, 2007.
photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech file
2002/10/25 Perspective View with Landsat Overlay, Costa Rica - This perspective view shows the Caribbean coastal plain of Costa Rica, with the Cordillera Central rising in the background and the Pacific Ocean in the distance. The prominent river in the ce
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President of Costa Rica Laura Chinchilla Miranda, the first woman to be elected president of the country.
photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Christopher B. Stoltz
Boatswain's Mate Jacklyn Cravey paints the anchor of the amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) while the ship is ported for operations in Costa Rica.
photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd
China's President Hu Jintao smiles during the signing of a bilateral agreement between China and Costa Rica at the Presidential House in San Jose, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008.
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