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The Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) was definitively established as an autonomous entity dedicated to research, higher education and outreach activities. Eighteen years later, in 1991, the governing body of CATIE was constituted to create a wholly independent Board of Directors made up of well-renowned ...
La Selva Biological Station is located in the Central Conservation Area (91,000 ha) in the north-eastern lowlands of Costa Rica (10°26´ N, 83°59´ W). [3] It encompasses 1,536 ha of classic-lowland tropical rain forest. The Sarapiquí and Puerto Viejo Rivers border the Station to the north, the Peje River to the west, and the Sábalo-Esquina ...
The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS)/Organización para Estudios Tropicales (OET), founded in 1963, [1] is a non-profit consortium of over 50 universities and research institutions based in the United States, Latin America, [2] and South Africa. OTS manages a network of ecological research stations in Costa Rica and South Africa.
Costa Rica ratified the convention on 23 August 1977. [3] It has four World Heritage Sites and one site on the tentative list. [3] The first site in Costa Rica listed was the Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves / La Amistad National Park, in 1983. In 1990, the site was expanded to include the sites across the border in Panama.
The Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura (Costa Rican Center of Science and Culture) is a science and culture museum complex in Costa Rica. Located in a fortress-like building that once served as the central penitentiary between 1910 and 1979, the center was inaugurated in 1994. It contains a number of important institutions ...
INCAE Business School (an acronym for Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas, English: Central American Institute of Business Administration") is an international business school located at the Walter Kissling Gam campus in Costa Rica. The school was founded with the assistance of professors from Harvard Business School in 1964.
2,100/km 2 (5,400/sq mi) Time zone. UTC−06:00. Postal code. 10901. Santa Ana is a district and head city of the Santa Ana canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica. [ 1][ 2] The city acts as seat to the municipal government of the Santa Ana Canton.
Santa Ana (Spanish: Cantón de Santa Ana) is the ninth canton in the San José province of Costa Rica. [2] [3] It is located in the Central Valley.It borders with the Alajuela canton to the north, the Mora canton to the south and west, the Escazú canton to the east, as well as the Belén canton to the north east. [4]