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Post Office Enables Digital Platform to Request Passport

Costa Rica's Post Office launched a digital platform from which Costa Ricans can self-manage their appointment for the passport process from the Internet. Through the page, interested parties can identify authorized branches, see available dates and times, as well...

“Voilá!”: Young Costa Rican Animator Arrives at Disney Studios

The imagination and the illusion of little Oliver allow him to enter the universe of magic and fantasy, which will end up being reflected in a unique gift for his most beloved person. This is, generally speaking, the story...

Digital Marketing’s Popularity Explained

Technological advances and the resultant changes in the way that media is consumed have meant that the advertising and marketing landscapes have changed significantly as well. In the not too distant past, media buyers spent the bulk of their...

BCIE Will Give US$ 750 Thousand for Feasibility Study of Electric Freight Train to Limón

The Costa Rican Railway Institute (Incofer) and Presidential House presented on Monday the initiative that aims to reactivate and boost the freight train to the province of Limón. It is the Limonense Electric Freight Train (Telca). As announced by...

Tourists Would Have to Prove They Carry US$ 500 to Enter Costa Rica

Deputy Shirley Díaz, a member of the Christian Social Unity Party (PUSC), proposed that all people entering the country with a tourist visa demonstrate the minimum carrying of US$ 500, either in cash or in credit or debit cards....

San José Will Add More Than 400 Bike Parking Posts

This week began the placement of more than 100 bike parking posts in different sites of the capital city. The Municipality of San José seeks to encourage citizens to use bicycles as a means of transportation. The municipality invested close...

Tapantí National Park: Magical Natural Wonderland

The Tapantí National Park is a nature reserve that is located in the La Amistad Conservation Area, in conjunction with the Massif de la Muerte, Northeast of the Talamanca Mountain Range, in the south-central part of our country. Located...

Costa Rica and Its Seismological Activities

For nobody is a secret that Costa Rica constantly suffers from earthquakes and tremors, which is due to “Sub-duction Zones” where large tectonic plates interact. These are, specifically, the Coco, Caribbean, Nazca, and the South American Plates. Japan, Mexico,...

Costa Rica Will Explore Being the Host Country of COP25, for 2019

Due to its worldwide progress on the path towards Decarbonization, Costa Rica is exploring the possibility of being the host country of the Convention of the Parties (Cop25) to be held in 2019. The venues of the COPs are...

INCOFER Approves the Purchase of 8 New Trains with the Latest Technology

The Costa Rican Institute of Railways (INCOFER) announced that on December 3rd, 2018, the Board of Directors of the institution approved the purchase of 8 new trains to the CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. factory, winner of the process....
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Workplace wellness: 5 things companies can learn from Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula

By JW Oliver Nicoya is one of Costa Rica’s Blue Zones, a region associated with an unusually high concentration of...