Costa Rica - The Civil War of 1948

Costa Rica's civil war of 1948 lasted only five weeks and further from negating democracy, it affirmed and reinforced it.

Info Costa Rica

Over 150 articles about Costa Rica Travel, 1000 links...

Costa Rica History

1821, Costa Rica and the rest of Central America followed suit. Two years later, a faction in Costa Rica even opted ...

Costa Rica: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — ...

Information on Costa Rica — geography, history, politics, government, economy, population statistics, culture, religion, languages, largest ...

History of Costa Rica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An era of peaceful democracy in Costa Rica began in 1889 with elections considered the first truly free and honest ones in the country's ...

Costa Rica, History

When Spanish explorers arrived in what is now Costa Rica at the dawn of the 16th century, they found the region populated by several poorly

A Brief History of Costa Rica

Human habitation can be traced back more than 10,000 years but it appears Costa Rica was sparsely populated and a relative backwater in the pre-

The history of the Republic of Costa Rica

The history of the Republic of Costa Rica...

CIA - The World Factbook -- COSTA RICA -- Background

Costa Rica is a Central American success story: since the late 19th century, only two brief periods of violence have marred its democratic...

Costa Rica Handbook

100 pages of introductory material on the history, politics, and ecosystems of Costa Rica (more or less what you see above) ...