COSTA RICA
 

 

GEOGRAPHY - COSTA RICA


Costa Rica is located in Central America. It is bordering in north with Nicaragua and the south with Panama. In the west the Pacific Ocean is and in the east, the Atlantic Ocean (in the area of the Caribbean).
The irregular littoral of the Caribbean comprises two peninsulas, Nicoya (in north) and Dared (in the south).
An assembly line crosses Costa Rica of the North-West to south-east forming in the center of the country a fertile central valley of a surface of 3.000 km² approximately. This chain is divided into three part, of north in the south it takes the name of will cordillera of Guanacaste then will cordillera Volcanica Central and finally it becomes will cordillera it of Talamanca.

One finds with Costa Rica of many rivers and rivers which go down from the mountains to fertilize the coastal plains more.