Costa+Rica

By Rocio Gonzalez

toc =My Country Facts=

Official country name:
Costa Rica.

People:
Costa Rican os Tico. The people speak Spanish. The Catholic (69%), the protestant (13%) and the budist (2%).
 * 1. What are the people from the country called (i.e Mali-Malian, Spain-Spanish)**
 * 2.What are the official language? What other languages do people speak?**
 * 3. What is the most-practiced religion?**

Government:
The lider of the country is Laura Chinchilla. It has an Constitutional democracy. Yes, it was a Spanish's colony and it gaineed its independece the 15th of september in the year 1821.
 * 1. What is the name of the leader of the country?**
 * 2. What type of government is the country ruled by (i.e monarchy, democracy, dictatorship?)**
 * 4. Was your country ever a colony? if so, when did it gain its independece?**

Geography:
It is situated in Cantral America. The Nicaraguan Republic, the Panaman Republic, the Caribean sea and the Pacific ocean. Costa Rica is a country with a lot of mountains. Most of it is formed by elevations between 900 and 1800 meters over the sea level.
 * 1. Where is the country? (i.e continent and region, for example Central Europe or North Africa?**
 * 2. What other nations border the country?**
 * 3. What kind of landscape does the country have?**

Economy:
The sector of employment is the traditional agricultural products like the bannas tree, the coffe, the sugar, the cocoa and the pineapple.
 * 1. What is the most common sector of employment in the country (i.e business, agriculture and farming, government jobs, etc)**


 * The most surprising thing I learned about my country was:** That they talk Spanish, because I think that only in Spain speaks Spanish.

My Predictions:
I don't think that in Costa Rica is animal traffic because the animals of Costa Rica aren't exotics and there is in a lot of more places in the world. In Costa Rica are a lot of security and they control that. Also, Costa Rica don't have any beneficts of animal traffic because the people who do it don't have to pay any taxes to take spaces outside or inside the country.

I think that in my country there's not child work under age because in Costa Rica there are a lot of adult population and is not necessary that the childrens work. In Csta Rica the child labour isn't a big problem, there the childrens have education and go to school. Maybe there are some child that work, but only a few of them.

=Republic of Costa Rica's Position Paper (1st draft)=