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Pura Vida! Cordially Welcome in Costa Rica! a Book on CD with Extensive Pura vida! Cordially welcome in Costa Rica! A book on CD with extensive information to the quality of life, to the acquiring of real estates and to business possibilities in Costa Rica. This book directs to people, which would like to live in Costa Rica and to find a suitable property to live her or in this Tax paradise to establish a business. Registered User can down-load gratuitously updates after it. Unfortunately, you are not yet there! But you did the first step already once - and that is good. Costa Rica, the dream country for many, is nearer than you believes. If you take off in Munich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt or Düsseldorf in the morning, you still are already in Costa Rica in the same evening: The approach on the Valle Central will fill you with enthusiasm - and it can continue after it exactly so. You/they will be filled with enthusiasm over the friendly people and can hardly fight back with all the helpfulness: everyone wants to help them and everyone has not only a friendly smile but also immediately a good advice ready. You can believe it from me: it is well meant, and that everyone wants to earn also a little one something, who may blame it him...? If you will read these sides, however, you will know, on what you must keep an eye, be it as a tourist now, potential business partner or as one, that overpopulated this and would like to leave überreglementierte Germany behind itself, in order to look for his/its luck in Costa Rica, and, to for always become resident there. Therefore there whoever live in Costa Rica permanently, wants to emigrate, "life partner" finds all important information also for it under the category as well as in CR broadly. We know as your fair and competent partner and advisors of all questions around Costa Rica. We say you the truth about this country, you therefore point out also disadvantages and dangers, that one can normally not see as a tourist. And nevertheless: It expects you a paradise, in which however, you won't be alone. You will have to share this paradise with others, that was already born there or decided already earlier than you in favor of this paradise. With those, you must live - and you also must reckon with those. Therefore it is also a giant difference whether one wants to visit the country only as tourist for some weeks or whether one for always wants to live in Costa Rica as emigrants. However no worry: One can live well with the Ticos if one sticks to this and that respects which the company of the Ticos - Costa Rica - amounts.! over it wants to inform you as inclusively and honestly as possible we, however. Broadly info Come along to a "short flight" from Costa Rica! In the most outer southwest of the Caribbean, there where the two oceans touch Atlantic and Pacific almost, the small country, that almost would have overlooked themselves Columbus, lies almost untouched between the continents. At only his third trip namely, he landed at the "Costa Rica" - and didn't want to go at country, because what lay before him/it were swamps and impenetrable jungle, so far the eye was enough. Still today, Costa Rica seems to be hardly heeded, because nothing seems to want to disturb the silence of this country: even Hurrikane leave it left. A paradise in the corner of the Caribbean, but from the nature in every sense spoils. The country of northwest became from east almost unapproachable, that going out colonized Spanish colony "Guatemala." The first settlers left themselves in the center at first, the high valley between the Kordillerensträngen down, and established the first city on approximately 1200 m over NN there: Cartago. What already the first settlers recognized, even many know also today: The best climate prevails in the "Valle Central": with 23-27 degrees the whole year over, moderate showers, 2500 mm in the year, and volcanic earth, that is extremely fertile, the ideal place, to settle about itself permanently. Admittedly, the fertility of the ground doesn't play any more central part in the Valle Central today, for it all the more, that the life pulsates here - and that four of the seven province capitals settled in here: Besides San José and Cartago also Heredia and Alajuela. The "Zona Metropolitana" lodges half of the total population of the country approximately today - and this, although the settling of Costa Rica assumed exactly the Valle Central. The country was populated asteroid in the last century - connected through the railroad line between Pacific and Atlantic and the two final points Limón in the east and Puntarenas in the west. After that of buy in addition of Guanacaste and the peninsula Nicoya from Nicaragua, Liberia turned into the seventh province capital - and the peninsula Nicoya with his/its many beautiful beaches to the basis of the tourism industry. In the east bananas, in the west cattle-raising and in the center coffee. That was the classic products of Costa Rica into the last century for the export until wide in. Only in the 70er years, a small industrial development began and then from end of the 80er years the tourism. He began small and "for only connoisseurs", a mild "Öko tourism", that built up on the sights of the country and his/its diverse flora and fauna. And this also lasted until today in the big and whole one so: the few hotel castles are concentrated on few places and the number of the tourists lies unimportantly over one million trippers per year also still today - and this with more than 250 km of beach! Economically Costa Rica therefore saw the industrial epoch jumped quasi and marched directly from the agrarian economy into an economy of the tertiary sector (services). More than 50 percent of the national product is obtained in this area, under it also in a health and educational system exemplary for Latin American circumstances. "Doctors and teachers instead of soldiers! ", one thinks in Costa Rica and therefore saves an individual army for itself since 1948. And this to all welfare. After you learned some worth knowing about the small country in the Caribbean corner in the short flight now, we now come in to land and mix us under the people. Country + people One finds the small country the best in the southwest corner of the Caribbean in that one turns the globe at the equator along westward and then, northward as soon as one reaches Ecuador, goes: after Columbien and Panama, one then pushes on Costa Rica: still south of the 10. The country lies fully degree of latitude in the tropical zone between the big oceans, therefore has both Atlantic coasts as well as Pacific coasts and decrees over more than 250 km of beach with the far largest part of it at the Pacific. On the Caribbean side, only the part is opened up for tourist south of Limón. In the north, he/it forms Rio San Juan the natural border at Nicaragua, in the southeast of the Rio Sixaola the passable border at Panama. CR has many very beautiful and also high-interesting rivers, that also can partly become really dangerous, although they never are very long because of the low distances. From northwest to southeast proceeds the central Kordillere, whose northern part has volcanic roots,: as strings volcano for itself at a pearl chain at volcano there, beginning with the "Rincon de la Vieja" north of Liberia as far as to the Turrialba in the center of the country. This at present most interesting these volcanos, since still actively, the Arenal is, that with the biggest crater of the Poás and the highest of all with partially splendid farsightedness as far as to both oceans, that north of Cartago of Irazu. In the center of the country, the Kordillere divides, around a central high valley around, the so-called Valle Central, in which not only the capital San Jose and the "Zona Metropolitana" are, but also three wide province capitals. Interestingly, this relatively big area with the Rio Tarcoles has only a real "water drain", that leads in the west at the same-named place in the Pacific. Shortly, it still swarms with crocodiles, whom one observe very well from the bridge, before the estuary there - and can also photograph. With somewhat more than 50.000 qkm, Costa Rica lies between the two federal states Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony in his size. One knows nothing exact about the population, the last census from the year 2002 according to gives it approximately 3,85 million inhabitants, however doubts are appropriate at these results. According to my opinion, one can originate from a population far over four million, if one finished alien animate in the country, as well all in front Nicaraguan includes, whose number becomes valued between 500.000 and one million - among them many illegal ones -. The population's far predominant part lives in the Valle Central, probably over two third - and this with growing tendency, because there is not as well as any infrastructure politics for the rural areas. The Valle Central has an expansion from east to west of approximately 70 km and from north to south of approximately 20 km. On these approximately 1400 qkm, 2,5 million inhabitants therefore live which then corresponds to a population density of almost 2000 inhabitants per qkm. Accordingly, there is therefore, geographical and demoskopisch, two different ones of Costa Rica: the Costa Rica of the Valle Central or the Zona Metropolitana and the Costa Rica of the rural area inclusive the coasts, that one essentially add third another, would have to add, namely the Costa Rica of the Talamanca, where lives until today only Native Americans., Indio-Reservate in the southeast until in after Panamá., One lives together in the Valle Central, especially in the zone about San José (direct hinterland approximately 10 km), there there is almost all (inclusive cable television) and there the normal life of Costa Rica takes place.
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