Interesting Facts That Will Compel You to Visit Costa Rica

Costa Rica, located in Central America is officially known as the Republic of Costa Rica. The place is beautifully positioned among Panama, the Caribbean Sea, Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean. Here are some more interesting facts that will surely enchant you to visit this place at least once in your lifetime.

• “Pura vida” means “pure life” is used in lieu of “hello” and “goodbye”.
• The native of Costa Rica refer to themselves as Ticas (women) and Ticos (men) and foreigners as Gringas (females) and Gringos (males).
• Costa Rica covers more aquatic territory than its land territory. Its land area is just over 50,000 square kilometers, but it encompasses more than 500,000 square kilometers of seawater.
• With its constitution drafted in 1949, it is the longest standing and most stable nation of Central America.
• The state is divided into seven small provinces named San Jose (the capital city), Puntarenas, Limon, Guanacaste, Heredia, Cartago, and Alajuela.
• With a rich flora and fauna, Costa Rica hosts nearly more than 5% of world's biodiversity with a .03% landmass of the planet's surface.
• The staple food of Costa Rica is rice and black beans along with vegetables, bread, salads, chicken or meat, and fruits. For breakfast, people eat a mixture rice and black beans that is called 'Gallo Pinto' in the common language.
• This place is the best for eco- and adventure-tourism that provides shelter to a huge variety of animals, birds and reptile. The most common mammal after bats is the monkey. It's a monkey galore with White-Faced, Spider, Squirrel and Howler monkeys as common species.
• The land is renowned as a hummingbird capital as it has the biggest collection of hummingbirds with 52 different species in its diversity.
• Costa Rica is home to more than 10 percent of the world's butterflies. There exist more than 750,000 distinct types of insects which include 20,000 different species of spiders.
• Costa Rica has more than 121 volcanic formations are found among which Arenal is one of the most active volcanoes found across the globe and Poas Volcano has the second widest crater in the world.
• About 25% of Costa Rican land is occupied by protected forests and reserves. It has 100 protected areas to visit, which has hyped the demand of Costa Rican vacation planning service providers.
• The capital of Costa Rica is San Jose and the state has a population of 4.1 million people. The average life expectancy in the land is stated to be almost 77 years and is one of the highest.
• Costa Rica since long time has been the best retirement choice for expats from different natives and many among them own restaurants and bars here.
• The summer from December to April is the best time to hit this spot. The sunrise and sunset maintain a constant time throughout the year!
• Blowing your nose publically is frowned and seen as an impolite and disgusting gesture.
• Just 1% of Costa Ricans are indigenous and others hail from different parts of the world.