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Costa Rica (/ËkÉstÉ ËriËkÉ/; Spanish: [Ëkosta Ërika]; literally meaning Rich Coast), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: RepÃºblica de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos ...
Costa Rica is known for its progressive environmental policies, being the only country to meet all five criteria established to measure environmental sustainability.It was ranked fifth in the world, and first in the Americas, in the 2012 Environmental Performance Index.uring most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, but which, in practice, operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.