Costa Rica is a development success story in many aspects. Considered an upper middle-income country, Costa Rica has experienced steady economic expansion over the past 25 years, but the COVID-19 ...

is the legal tender in Costa Rica that is also divided into 100 equal parts called cents. After its independence, in 1821, the country abandoned the use of the Spanish currency and switched to ...

San Gerardo de Rivas is a small, traditional Costa Rican town situated high in the valley of the Chirripó Pacífico River in the Talamanca Mountains of south-central Costa Rica. The area has ...

Since 2010, Costa Rica has enjoyed strong and stable economic growth - 3.8% in 2017. Exports of bananas, coffee, sugar, and beef are the backbone of its commodity exports. Various industrial and ...

If you don't mind getting a little wet, visit between May and November when prices are at their lowest. During July and August, rain showers pause briefly, and Costa Rica's forests burst with ...

State-owned Banco Nacional (BN), the largest commercial bank in Costa Rica and one of the biggest in Central America with over $7 billion in assets, is launching a spot bitcoin exchange-traded ...