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Home Main Menu Pictures Hotels ... Yellow Pages Free Wallpaper (1024x768 pixels. Click on the individual picture to copy and go to wallpaper gallery) Letters from Costa Rica History of Costa Rica, Independence Earlier Letters Tolerance Love My Philosophy Healthcare Fraud ... Fasting Comments: About the Letters About our Site About Pictures Short comments ... Write a comment Various: Sponsors Section Site Statistics Costa Rica News, August 2004 Independence Costa Rica became independent from Spain on September 15th 1821. See our picture Gallery of the celebration of the Independence Day . Although Costa Ricans were not aware of this situation until at least a month later. It briefly became part of the Mexican empire, then a state within the Central American United Provinces. The first elected head of state was Juan Mora Fernández, who governed from 1824 to 1833. during his time in office, export of coffee, introduced in 1808 from Cuba began in modest amounts. The rest of the 19th Century saw a steady increase in coffee exports, and this turned Costa Rica from an extremely poor and struggling Country into a more successful and worldly one. Inevitably, some of the coffee growers became relatively rich, and a class structure began to emerge. In 1849, a successful coffee grower, Juan Rafael Mora, became president and governed for 10 years. Mora's presidency is remembered both for economic and cultural growth, and for a somewhat bizarre military incident that has earned a place in every Coasta Rican child's history book. In June 1855, the US filibuster Willam Walker arrived in Nicaragua with the aim of conquering Central America and converting it into a slaving territory, then using the slaves to build a Nicaraguan canal to join the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Walker defeated the Nicaraguans and marched on to Costa Rica, which he entered more or less unopposed, reaching a hacienda at Santa Rosa (now a National Park in north-western Costa Rica)

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Search in Our Website HOME ABOUT COSTA RICA THINGS TO DO PACKAGES ... CONTACT US Costa Rica History Columbus first saw this portion of Central America in 1502 during his last trip to the New World. But Spanish settlement did not begin until the mid-1500s because early expeditions were beset by disease and local resistance from the Guaymi people. The Spanish did find some gold in the area - inspiring the name Costa Rica (Rich Coast) - but not the large reserves they sought. Colonization proceeded slowly along the east coast until the Spanish finally moved to the fertile valleys and mesas of the interior, known as the Central Valley. Geography kept the plantation system, with its attendant slavery, from developing in Costa Rica. Instead, the colonists gathered near the indigenous communities and built ranches and farms. The towns grew into distinct provinces that, even today, retain their own characters. Such independence and self-reliance are thought to be the reasons democracy came more naturally to Costa Rica than to its neighbors when the country gained its independence in the early 1820s. Brief civil wars erupted among the major cities, but the more liberal forces of San Jose emerged victorious, moving the country toward fair, democratic elections in the late 1800s Costa Ricatake pride in having more than one hundred years of democratic tradition, and almost half a century without an army. The army was abolished in 1948, and the money the country saves by not expending in military issues is invested in improving the Costa Ricans standard of living, which has fostered a culture of social peace that makes it such a pleasant place to visit.

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