Updated June 29, 2021 Rincón de la Vieja Volcano Erupts The Rincón de la Vieja Volcano in Costa Rica erupted on June 28, 2021 at 5:42am. The eruption lasted 90 seconds and created a dense plume of gases, water, and ash. You could see the plume from several different volcanoes across Costa Rica. The ash…
Most people imagine Costa Rica as a tropical country full of sun, heat, and palm trees. This is all true…for most of the country. Monteverde, however, provides one important exception to the rule. When I visited Monteverde last November, I found it to be deliciously cold. I found more pines than palm trees. This mountainside…
A lot of people come to Costa Rica thinking it is a small country you can explore in just a couple weeks. It’s only 19,700 square miles (51,100 square km). That is about a third the size of the state of New York and about 20% of the size of the United Kingdom, just to give…
How About Dangerous Insects in The Rainforest? Is It as Bad as I Imagine? When I was a kid, back in the seventies, my Nanny Elena used to tell me these horrible stories about the “Chiquizá” (Chee-kee-zaa). The Chiquizá (I learned later in life that their real name is Tarantula Hawk) was a huge black…
Endangered Species of Costa Rica Costa Rica is a tropical mountainous country that is part of the Central American Isthmus, making Costa Rica a land bridge between the two great continents of the Americas. This land bridge sees migrations from north to south and vice versa. Costa Rica contains both tropical and subtropical climates with…