Dear Readers, It has been mine for the last 11 years. No longer is it a lifetime´s dream: the beaches and the lush vegetation, the warm climate, cool nights, good food, kind people, a great community […]
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Coral Gardening in Golfo Dulce
Golfo Dulce, in the southeastern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is home to coral reefs and communities that have been affected by different factors in the last three decades. In a recent attempt to conserve […]
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Pre-Columbian Rock Art at the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor
During the month of July, the division of Community Rural Tourism of the Association of Women of the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor, received the archeologist Iphigenia Quintanilla, recognized for her research on pre-Columbian stone spheres. […]
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Stay off the Rocks!
by Nate Bright The Guardavidas Costa Ballena Lifeguards are a community funded lifeguard program that protects three of our local beaches: Playa Dominical to the north, Playa Hermosa near Uvita and Playa Ventanas to the […]
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By Jack Ewing The most noteworthy old tree that has passed on at Hacienda Barú was an enormous old kapok or ceibo tree (Ceiba pentandra). It once dominated the skies near what is today the […]
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Savegre River, Ecological and Cultural Bastion
by Luis H. Galera Savegre River – Ecological and Cultural Bastion The waters named Quebrada Providencia at 3490 m.a.s.l. flow from the interior of the Cordillera de Talamanca in the mystical Massif de la Muerte, […]
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