Costa+Rica


 * Capital || San Jose ||
 * Total Area || 19,730 Square Miles ||
 * Major Religions || Christian and Other ||
 * Population || 4,200,200 ||
 * Life Expectancy || 79 ||
 * Urban Population || 59% ||
 * Literacy Rates || 96% ||
 * Doctors per 100,000 people || 173 ||
 * official Language || Spanish and English ||
 * Per Capita, US$ || 9,100 ||

Overview
Costa Rica is located in Latin America, right between Panama and Nicaragua. The southwestern part of Costa Rica has a climate of tropical wet and dry. The northeastern part of Costa Rica has a climate of tropical wet. The majority of Costa Rica is covered in broadleaf evergreen forest. Where you don't find the broadleaf evergreen forest you find temperate grassland. In the southeastern part of Costa Rica there are only 10-50 people living per square mile there. In the northern part there are only 1-10 people. Even less than the southeastern part. The majority of Costa Rica is used for commercial farming. That was a little bit about the country Costa Rica.

Climate
The southwestern part of Costa Rica is hot all year with some rainy and dry seasons. The northeastern part of Costa Rica is really hot and rainy all year! In more scientific terms the southwestern part of Costa Rica would be tropical wet and dry. The northeastern part of Costa Rica would be tropical wet. Costa Rica is pretty much split evenly between these two climates. You can be sure that anywhere you go in Costa Rica it will rain and be wet and it will be hot! There are some areas of Costa Rica that won't be as hot as some other parts of Costa Rica.

Vegetation
The majority of Costa Rica is covered by broadleaf evergreen forest. Broadleaf evergreen forest is tall trees with very large leaves that remain green all year. The trees have their leaves year round and the trees are very tall! A lot of the trees in Costa Rica are really old because Costa Rica doesn't have as big of a problem with losing their rain forests as we do with our forests. Almost anywhere you go in Costa Rica you'll find terrain that is covered in broadleaf evergreen forest. But where you don't find broadleaf evergreen forest you find temperate grassland. Temperate grassland means that there are short and tall grasses adapted to cool climates.

Population
In the southeastern part of Costa Rica there are only 10-50 people per square mile. 10-50 people per square mile is really not that crowded. On the other hand, in the northern part of Costa Rica has only 1-10 people per square mile which is almost never crowed unless everyone who lives in that area is in the same area as once! Costa Rica isn't a super popular place to live probably because of the lack of work and because it's hot and rainy a lot of the year.

Economic Activity
The majority of Costa Rica is used for commercial farming. Commercial farming is raising and selling crops and/or livestock to sell to make money. A lot of the land on Costa Rica is rich farmland, so it makes it easy to make a living off of raising and selling livestock and/or crops. Also, there aren't a lot of big businesses there and a lot of people obviously don't have a choice whether they farm or not. Don't get me wrong, just because they don't really have a choice whether or not to farm doesn't mean they don't want to farm or don't like farming. They could've been dreaming of farming their whole life and they could love farming for a living.