Tag: Costa Rica

The La Amistad National Park, located on the border between Panama and Costa Rica, extends in the southern part of the Cordillera de Talamanca. It is covered up to 90% by rain and cloud forest and contains one of the largest untouched tropical forests on earth. The Talamanca Mountains are the largest and highest mountains […]

History After the landing of Christopher Columbus on the Caribbean coast of today’s Costa Rica in 1502, the Spaniards conquered the sparsely populated interior in the second half of the 16th century. Since no precious metals were discovered, colonization progressed slowly and was limited to the agricultural development of the region. The poverty of raw […]

In 1502 Christopher Columbus, on his fourth voyage, landed on the coast which he called “Costa Rica y Castilla de Oro”, which was immediately incorporated into an already existing Spanish district, that of Veragua. In 1540 its territorial jurisdiction was established for the first time and then in 1573, under Philip II, its limits were […]