Costa Rica General Information

 Costa Rica Geography - Location

 

Costa Rica, this country is the southernmost of the five countries that comprise Central America, eight to eleven degrees north latitude, between 83 to eighty-six degrees west longitude.

Depending on the latitude mentioned, Costa Rica is located in the center of the tropics 10 ° north of the equator.

 

This region is also known as "hot zone" because of warm temperatures prevailed.

Also located in the North American continent, Central America. This six hours west of Greenwich.

The borders of Costa Rica are natural, classic and diverse.  

In the east and northeast is limited by the Caribbean Sea, and west and south by the Pacific Ocean to the south-eastern border with the Republic of Panama and Nicaragua to the north, the border is natural.  

 

Sapoa River, Riverside south of Lake Nicaragua and San Juan River, but because of the border agreement signed in 1858 Jerez Cañas, this limit is defined as a line of the Caribbean Sea, just the tip of Punta Castilla at the mouth of the river San Juan, the line continues along the right bank, upstream to a point three English miles from Fort from Castillo Viejo, therefore, continuing to the west, making a curve equidistant from a radius of three miles of the fortress, and English continues two miles south of the right bank of the river and continue two miles to the south shore of Lake Nicaragua, before joining the River Sapoa. From that point, the boundary follows a straight line toward the center of Bahia Salinas.

Costa Rica borders Panama (which was a province of Colombia until 1903). This limit has not been well defined for many years, Costa Rica claimed as part of its territory along the coast of Laguna de Chiriqui. Later, however, to end the dispute, Costa Rica and Colombia submitted the dispute to the decision of the French President Loubet, but suggested a limit incorrectly that the failure to resolve the dispute.  

 

Once that Panama was established as a republic, the matter was referred to the President of the U.S. Supreme Court Edward Douglas White, who presented his verdict Sept. 12, 1914. This verdict met in Costa Rica, but was not sufficiently satisfactory to the Panamanians.

In 1941, Panama and Costa Rica reached agreement on the border treaty Echandi-Montero/Fernandez Jaen.  

Treaty signed on 1 May 1941. Second, the legislative bodies of both countries approved the boundary described: "From the mouth of the river Sixaola in the Caribbean Sea, monitoring of the river along the lower valley of the river emptying into the Yorkin River, from then upstream along the lower valley of the river the parallel of longitude 9 ° 30 'north of the equator, then continuing

 

south 76 ° 3T, west of the meridian of length 82 ° 58'10 "west of Greenwich, thence continuing to him along that meridian to the mountain range that separates the waters of the Caribbean waters of the Pacific, following the ridge to Cerro Pano where it meets the ridge separating the waters flowing into the Golfo Dulce and Charco Azul Bay, from there follow the ridge until the end of Punta Burica in the Pacific Ocean. 

 

 

Tours and Activites list and Links