Nature and Wildlife
This is how many active volcanoes there are in Costa Rica.
What are five volcanoes: Arenal, Rincon de la Vieja, Poas, Irazu, and Turrialba. Some consider Miravalles and/or Tenorio to be active, which would bring the number up to 6 or 7.
This was the year Spanish colonists first arrived to Costa Rica.
What is 1502?
This is the national bird of Costa Rica.
What is the Yiguirro / Clay-colored thrush?
This is the number of indigenous groups currently recognized by the government of Costa Rica.
What are eight indigenous groups?
This is the average life expectancy in Costa Rica - how long a Costa Rican is expected to live.
What is 80 years old?
This is the number of bird species that live in Costa Rica.
What is 903?
This is another country that gained independence from Spain in 1821 with the Act of Independence of Central America.
What are: El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua
This is the national tree of Costa Rica.
What is the guanacaste tree?
This is the name of one of the indigenous groups in Costa Rica.
What are: The Boruca, Bribri, Cabécar, Guaymí, Huetar, Maleku, Matambú, Térraba (government official names)
Other names used for these groups include: Ngabe, Broran, Chorotega, Bruka/Brunca, Teribe, Guatuso - and others!
This is how many meters of rain Monteverde receives in an average year.
What is 2.8 meters of rain?
This is the percentage of the world's biodiversity (number of species) that lives in Costa Rica.
What is 5%?
In this year, Costa Rica abolished its military.
What is 1948?
There are three of these on the official seal of Costa Rica.
What are volcanoes?
In 2018, what percentage of Costa Ricans lived in cities compared with rural areas?
This is why Costa Ricans are called "Ticos."
What is the -tico diminuitive ending?
This is the largest of Costa Rica's 1500 butterfly species.
What is the owl moth?
This person used a torch to fight back against Americans attempting to colonize the country in 1856.
Who is Juan Santamaría?
This is the national musical instrument of Costa Rica.
What is the marimba?
This was the population of Costa Rica in 2019.
What is 5.048 million?
This is the percentage of Costa Rica's electricity that was produced without the use of fossil fuels in 2020.
What is 99.78% renewable energy?
This percent of the land in Costa Rica is conserved for wildlife.
What is 25%?
This was the first year Costa Rica held democratic elections.
What is 1869?
These are all the national symbols of Costa Rica that are animals.
What are the manatee, the white-tailed deer, the sloth (both two-toed and three-toed), the yigüirro (Clay-colored thrush), and the morpho butterfly.
This province has the lowest population.
What is Guanacaste province?
This part of Costa Rica is one of 5 blue zones in the world - places where people tend to live longer than 100.
What is Nicoya?