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Cartago will wear colors this weekend

August 30, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Once again the Old Metropolis will be filled with colors and creative handcrafted products, in the traditional La Pasada Festival, which will be held on September 2nd and 3rd. The opening will be on Saturday at 8:00 a.m. in the Plaza Mayor, in front of the Ruins. There, all the people will meet to witness […]

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Wonderful natural beauty display in the Gulf of Nicoya

August 28, 2017 by Staff News Writer

At 3:30 on Monday afternoon, a resident of Puntarenas captured these marvelous images of two waterspouts that formed on the sea. The event was recorded by a man named Guevara and it happened in front of Costa de Pájaros, near the waters of the Gulf of Nicoya. Apparently, Guevara lives in Costa de Pájaros and […]

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Giant whale made from plastic bottles in Puntarenas

August 24, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The data is worrying: it is estimated that by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the world’s seas. Daily human activities are filled with the pollutant material and it reaches rivers and seas for different reasons. Therefore, a group of organizations and residents of Osa, in Puntarenas, built a whale with 3,494 […]

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Amazing whale sighting on Cabuyal beach

August 21, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Javier Elizondo spent the weekend at Cabuyal beach, in the company of his friend Andrés Echeverría. Both of them photographed a humpback whale mother and her offspring in that part of the North Pacific region of the country. I was fortunate that the family of whales was about 200 meters from the beach […] Whales […]

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Whales surprise tourists in Drake

August 20, 2017 by Staff News Writer

Once again, Costa Rican beauties astonished nationals and foreigners. On Saturday, some tourists who visited Drake Bay in the Pacific Ocean, to the south of the country, were amazed by the blue waters. This place is famous for being a dolphins and humpback whales area. The animals go there with their young. Although it is […]

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Snake surprises a Scot who bought pineapple from Costa Rica

August 17, 2017 by Staff News Writer

This week, a Scottish man from Edinburgh bought a pineapple produced in Costa Rica and it came with a live snake. After unpacking the groceries, the man found the reptile that arrived from Costa Rica -for reasons that are yet to be explained. The specimen is a member of the Leptodeira annulata family, which is […]

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