The population also includes indigenous, African and mixed descent groups. Like other former Spanish colonies across the Americas, Costa Rica’s official language is Spanish and the most commonly ...

The Maleku are the smallest—numbering less than a thousand—of Costa Rica’s eight indigenous groups, which represent 2.4% of the ... Quirós and other community members explain their ethnic customs and ...

Costa Rica's temporary permits may ease immediate concerns, but rights groups are pressing for longer-term solutions and legal protections for migrant families. Ongoing litigation and ...

“We will protect them.” The move comes after the country’s own ombudsman, human rights groups and a coalition of international lawyers denounced Costa Rica for what they called the wrongful ...

Still, Retamosa smiled: She cares for ecosystems in Costa Rica’s AmistOsa Biological Corridor ... bioacoustics and ecoacoustics. Now, research groups can hang sensors that record snippets ...

A total of 200 people, including 80 children, arrived in Costa Rica on two deportation flights from the United States in February and are being held in a migration “reception facility” near ...