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Costa Rica -The central highlands, extending from northwest to southeast, reach elevations of more than 3,660 m. The highest point in the country is Chirripó. There are four volcanoes one of these volcanoes. The Atlantic coastal plain, on the Caribbean side of the highlands is low, swampy, hot, excessively rainy, and heavily forested.  Spanish, with a southwestern Caribbean Creole dialect of English spoken around the Limon area. 4,658,887 – 2010 Source: World Bank Costa Rica consists of 7 provinces.
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-Costa Rica is unique because it isn’t either a least developed country or a most developed country. While Costa Rica isn’t really industrialized, this country still manages to have many characteristics of a developed country. Costa Rica is considered a transitioning country. Low infant mortality rate and high life expectancy for both males and females are just a few of the characteristics of developed countries that Costa Rica holds.

**Rate of growth:** 4% (2011 EST.) **Doubling Time:** 33 years, this doubling time is faster than the world’s doubling time average. **Birth Rate:** 16.54 births/1,000 population (2011 est.) **Death Rate:** 4 per 1000 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Immigration Rate:** 10.19% <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **-0-14 years:** 24.6% (male 574,876/female 549,664) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**-15-64 years:** 69.1% (male 1,588,940/female 1,571,573) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**-65 years and over:** 6.4% (male 135,017/female 156,492) (2011 est.)
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Stage of Demographic transition:** Stage Three (Post-Transitional Stage) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Family Planning:** Yes, Family Planning is affective in Costa Rica because the decrease in fertility and the increase of literacy and modernization.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Terrestrial Biomes:** Tropical Dry Forest, Tropical Deciduous Forest, Savanna <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Aquatic Biomes:** Oceanic Biomes along the coast lines <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most of the endangered species in this country are due to loss of habitat. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Biodiversity Law of Costa Rica <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Hydroelectric power, forest products, fisheries products: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**#1 Export:** Coffee <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**#1 Import:**raw materials
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Endangered Species: **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Black-cheeked Ant-tanager
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cocos Cuckoo
 * 3) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great Green Macaw
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Zetek's Treefrog
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great Curassow
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Indicator Species: **
 * 1) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Frogs
 * 2) Frogs are particularly sensitive animals that are the first to go when the climate starts to change.
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Forest are managed and sustained by conservation projects, such as COSEFORMA,which focuses on the conservation of forest resources and the establishment of a <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">self-sustaining forestry sector which creates employment and generates income for the poor <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">population in rural areas.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Parks: **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arenal Volcano National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barbilla National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Barra Honda National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Braulio Carrillo National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cahuita National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Carara National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chirripó National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Cocos Island National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Corcovado National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Diria National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Guanacaste National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Irazú Volcano National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Juan Castro Blanco National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">La Amistad International Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">La Cangreja National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Las Baulas National Marine Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Manuel Antonio National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Maquenque National Park (proposed)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palo Verde National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Piedras Blancas National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poás Volcano National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rincón de la Vieja Volcano National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Santa Rosa National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tapantí National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tenorio Volcano National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tortuguero National Park
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Turrialba Volcano National Park

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Costa Rica undergoes industrial agriculture to produce large amounts of agricultural goods. The more goods produced at such rapid rates, the less expensive the companies have to sell their products for, making them leaders in the world market. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Costa Ricans protect their crops by using fertilizers and pesticides extensively. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-Costa Ricans also receives the food resources that they need. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Approximately 99% of the urban population is connected to water supply (as compared to an average of 90% in the LAC region). Around 48% had urban sanitation connections to public sewerage or had individual septic tanks.
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