Costa Rica General Information

      Costa Rica is a small mountainous country on the narrow Central American isthmus. It's only a day's drive from its northern border with Nicaragua to neighboring Panama in the south, and one could cross from ocean to ocean in only a few hours. But why hurry? There's just too much to see and do in between. 

     Costa Rica 's stunning scenic heritage unfolds in an ever-changing panorama of steaming volcanoes, forested mountains, dramatic skies and bucolic countryside. Dark lowland jungles give way to rolling savannas; Pacific surf crashes against rocky headlands, sharp contrast to the tranquility of palm-fringed Caribbean beaches. 

      The climate is idyllic. In the lowland- which is dry in the Pacific northwest and humid elsewhere- daytime temperature range in the eighties to nineties degrees.

      Usually in the seventies at middle elevations, the mercury can fall as low as the forties and fifties at the top of the mountains. Even night time frost is not a uncommon occurrence on the highest peaks. Within each elevation range, the temperature will remain relatively constant year-round. Rainfall, on the other hand, is subject to annual and regional patterns. 

     San Jose known simply as San Jose , was designated as the capital of Costa Rica in 1835. The sprawling capital is nestled in the fertile "Valle Central"
(Central Valley ) and surrounded on all sides by large forested mountain ranges, some of which include active volcanoes, perennially green savannahs and working coffee plantations... ... If Shopping is on top of your list.just stroll down the aisles of Paradise Mall, whatever you want or need, you'll find it there. Night life is filled with dancing, food, gambling, and....