• Currency: Colon.
• Income Per capita: $4,280.
• Mayor industries: Tourism, microprocessors, food processing, textiles and clothing, construction materials, fertilizer, plastic products.

• Wheel of traditional ox cart

  Mayor production in Agriculture: Coffee, pineapples, sugar, bananas, corn, rice, beans, potatoes, beef.
• Mayor exports: electronic components, bananas, coffee, pineapples, electricity.
• Export partners: U.S 51%, Europe 23%, Central America 11% and Japan 2%.
• Tourism earns more foreign exchange than bananas and coffee combined.
• Costa Rica did away with its military in 1948.
• Six percent of the world’s species of plants and animals are found in this country.
• Costa Rica is home of five active volcanoes, including Volcan Arenal, which is the second largest active volcano in the world.

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