• The United World College Costa Rica (UWC Costa Rica, also known by its acronym UWCCR) (Spanish - Colegio del Mundo Unido Costa Rica), located in the Santa...
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  • The University of Costa Rica (Spanish: Universidad de Costa Rica, abbreviated UCR) is a public university in the Republic of Costa Rica, in Central America...
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    wildlife of Costa Rica comprises all naturally occurring animals, fungi and plants that reside in this Central American country. Costa Rica supports an...
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    The "Himno Nacional de Costa Rica" (English: "Costa Rican National Anthem"), also known by its incipit, "Noble patria, tu hermosa bandera" (English: "Noble...
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  • United World Colleges (UWC) is an international network of schools and educational programmes with the shared aim of "making education a force to unite...
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    Francisco Calvo (category Footballers from San José, Costa Rica)
    (born 8 July 1992) is a Costa Rican professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Juárez and the Costa Rica national team. After starting...
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    Santa Ana located in the neighboring district of Uruca. Santa Ana hosts the United World College of Costa Rica which offers the IB program for international...
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  • Abortion in Costa Rica is severely restricted by criminal law. Currently, abortions are allowed in Costa Rica only in order to preserve the life or physical...
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  • School Knightsbridge Schools International Bogotá (Bogotá) United World College of Costa Rica Academia Cotopaxi Colegio Americano de Quito ÏSM International...
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  • Gmeiner", in Santa Ana, Costa Rica, re-opened as the United World College of Costa Rica, becoming the 11th United World College and the only UWC in Latin...
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    The cinema of Costa Rica comprises the art of film and creative movies made within the nation of Costa Rica or by Costa Rican filmmakers abroad. Though...
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    Christiana Figueres (category People from San José, Costa Rica)
    José, Costa Rica. Her father, José Figueres Ferrer, was President of Costa Rica three times. Figueres' mother, Karen Olsen Beck, served as Costa Rican...
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  • spread to Costa Rica on 6 March 2020, after a 49-year-old woman tourist from New York, United States, tested positive for the virus. As of 9 August 2022[update]...
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  • School of Costa Rica United World College of Costa Rica International Christian Academy Vavoua International School American International School of Zagreb...
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    Western Christian College, Regina Costa Rica Country Day School (Guanacaste Province) United World College of Costa Rica St. George's College, Buenos Aires...
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  • list of all the heads of state of Costa Rica. The current Constitution establishes that the President of Costa Rica is both head of state and head of government...
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    Rocky Rodríguez (category Footballers from San José, Costa Rica)
    San José, Costa Rica to Sivianni Rodriguez and Grettel Cedeño, Rodriguez, nicknamed Rocky, was raised in Costa Rica and moved to the United States where...
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    Aviva Chomsky (category Bates College faculty)
    Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870–1940 was awarded the 1997 Best Book Prize by the New England Council of Latin American Studies...
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  • United World College of the Atlantic, and often referred to by its original name, Atlantic College) is an independent boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan...
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    Karen Olsen Beck (category Members of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica)
    Danish American-Costa Rican diplomat, politician and social worker. She has served as the First Lady of Costa Rica during the governments of her husband José...
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  • Trade unions in Costa Rica advocate for the rights of workers in Costa Rica. Dating back to the late 1800s, labor unions in the country have been a political...
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    Rafael Iglesias Castro (category Presidents of Costa Rica)
    Yglesias (18 April 1861 – 10 April 1924) was a Costa Rican politician who served as President of Costa Rica for two consecutive periods from 1894 to 1902...
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  • person and a detainee: she had spent 43 days at large until her capture in Costa Rica, where authorities said she used different names and changed her appearance...
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    Óscar Arias (category 20th-century presidents of Costa Rica)
    September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from...
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    international law. The headquarters of the University for Peace are located in a natural area near Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica. However, the university also has...
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  • Gabriela Guillén (category Costa Rica women's international footballers)
    She played for Costa Rica against the United States in 2012. Guillén has participated in under-17 and under-20 World Cups with Costa Rica, playing two matches...
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    Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (category Academic staff of the University of Costa Rica)
    1940) is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002. He was minister of planning...
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  • Steve Sampson (category Costa Rica national football team managers)
    State in 1979 with a minor in Spanish, which he later used as coach of the Costa Rica national team. After graduating from San Jose State, he moved to Stanford...
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    General elections were held in Costa Rica on 5 February 2006. In the presidential election, Óscar Arias of the National Liberation Party (Partido Liberación...
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