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General
Information About Costa Rica
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Costa Rica is the second small country in the Central American Isthmus.The name of the country takes us to different versions. One of them says the name was given in Panama in 1539. The translation to English would be "Rich Coast" and some others say that the name was given by the Spanish conquerors who supposed there were tons of gold in this region. Unfortunately this was no true. As they came to firm land in 1502, they observed that the natives had lots of ornaments on their necks, wrist, ankle, nose etc... It is true that Costa Rica has some gold, but many of this metal was product of commercial exchange between the natives of this regions and natives from other places, specially from Mexico and south America. Some of the expedition to the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, and others, who got to the central mountains, got a lot of gold from the natives by forcing them. The conquerors got frustrated as they never got the amounts of gold that the South American Inca Chief Indian gave to Francisco Pizarro.
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