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Republic of Coast Rica is situated in Centramerica; it confines to the
north with Nicaragua and to south with Panama; to east it is wet from the
Atlantic ocean and to west from the ocean Pacific. Independent from 1821,
the Coast Rica is a presidential Republic. Executive power is practiced
by the President of the Repubblica,eletto to direct popular suffraggio
every 4 years, and from a presidential Bathroom from him named; legislative
power is up to the Legislative meeting. The country is crossed for
all of its length by a volcanic cordillera, that lowers in the center to
form the ample depression of the Meseta Centrale, which welcomes the three
quarters of the population. The coasts of the Pacific are rather articulated;
the principal port is " Puerto Caldera ", next to the city' of Puntarenas,
become by now a modern port complex for the mooring of transatlantic and
load ships. Instead low and united those on the Atlantic; in the center
of the oriental coast Limon is found, one of the principals harbors of
the country. For the geographical position the climate of the country
is mainly warm dampness on the coasts, moderate on the Meseta. The various
temperature among the 20 degrees on the central highlands and the 29 degrees
on the coastal zones. The coexistence of various climatic conditions favors
a very various vegetation. There is a season of the rains that has gone
since May to everything October. The season of the rains is characterized
by afternoon precipitations of strong intensity but generally of brief
duration, with bright mornings and floods of sun. The economy of
the country is based on the agriculture. Her principal crops are those
industrial: coffee, bananas, cocoa and abacà from which the hemp
of Manila is drawn; it follows maize's production, rice and beans.
Unlike the most greater part of the countries of Latin America, the inhabitants
of the Costa Rica don't introduce the characteristic lines of the native,
in how much the majority of the 3.200.000 inhabitants they are descending
of European families, mainly Spanish and Italian. The road net is
present and efficient in the big part of the country. The costaricensis
can surprise the tourist with elaborate dish whose typical ingredients
are universal, as rice and beans, this dish is called " Rooster Pinto".
Another typical dish of Costa Rica is the " base flour tamal " of minced
corn on which is set a stuffing of rice, meat of pig and chicken. This
is wound in leaves of platan and it boils before serving. The families
have the habit to especially cook this dish to Christmas. To sweeten whatever
palate is not able macare the biscuits of coconut, the rice with the milk
and the salads of fruit. A fundamental thing that cannot be lost
is the coffee. In Coast Rica has gotten used to drink a " cafecito" black,
or with breakfast milk; to half forenoon, after the lunch and in the afternoon
or the night. |
