Costa Rica

Free and always accurate driving directions, Google Maps, traffic information for Costa Rica (CR). Explore satellite imagery of San Jose, the capital city of Costa Rica, on the Google Maps of Central America and the Caribbean below.

Costa Rica (GPS: 10 00 N, 84 00 W) located in Central America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Nicaragua and Panama. The country’s area measurements are total: 51,100 sq km; land: 51,060 sq km, water: 40 sq km. This sovereign state is slightly smaller than West Virginia. The total irrigated land is 1,015 sq km (2012).

One of the essential features of Costa Rica: Four volcanoes, two of them active, rise near the capital of San Jose in the center of the country. One of the volcanoes, Irazu, erupted destructively in 1963-1965.

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