Costa Rica

Who was the First to live there

Carib Indians culture

• Very religous to there belifes 
• felt very rich because they made gold bands to go on nosie

Who settled here

• Christopher Columbous found Costa Rica on September 18, 1502
• And latter on the spanish settled there

Historical events

• 1821 Costa Rica gains independent from Spain and join the Mexican empire. 
• 1838 Costa Rica because a fully independent country. 
• 1968 Arenal Volcano erupts
• 2010 Laura chinchilla becomes Costa Rica first women President 

The goverment today

Economy

• The economy is very stable
• The population is 4'253'877 
• uneployment rate 7.9%

Geographic features

• volcanos
• moutians
• plains
• moutians ranges

cultural traditions

• Easter Week
• Christmas
• Discovery of america
• Flesta de los diablitos

Challenges

• very hard for to get jobs
• It rains for half the year

positives

• Fast growing economey
• Great helth care

IMPORTANT people

• Claudia Mari Pool Ahrens: Olympic gold meadelist
• Christina Founier: Artist
• Ronaled lanzon: Athletic runner
• Walter Flores: Musian directer

SIMULATES between US and Costa Rica

• The econemy
• Christifor Columbus discoverd both areas 

DIFFERENCES between US and Costa Rica

• Costa Rica's government spends more then the Us
• Costa Rica Specks Spanish
• US Specks english

would you like to IMMIGRATE to your country

• no
• because I am a person how dose not like to move from house to house 
• so I could not move county to country