This map shows how close Costa Rica is to the countries that they would trade with.
This is a map of Costa Rica that show the settlement that came to Costa Rica.
Costa Rica has been an important country in South America for centuries. The first person to explore and encounter Costa Rica was the famous Christopher Columbus on September 18, 1502. Columbus liked the golden bands that the natives worse in their nose that he named the country Costa Rica meaning rich country. Although he is the first person to claim he found it there has been research done that proves there was settlement on the land before he discovered it. Hunter gathers as they called them were living in Costa Rica from 10,000 to 7,000 BCE.
Although Costa Rica had gold and precious stones the Spanish conquistadors did not want to settle Costa Rica because of the competition and jealously among all teh Spaniards and the climate in Costa Rica made it hard for the Spanish to conquest the island. Despite the climate, Spain dominated the native people and for many years only small number of spanish settlers inhabited the area.
In 1562, Juan Vasquez de Coronado brought men and supplies from Nicaragua to help the struggling settlement. Although this help the population more and brought a more white population as well it was still a struggling settlement. Finally in the 17 century people began to realize what Costa Rica could offer to South America. Costa Rica began to produce agricultural needs and maintain an export trade to Panama and Nicaragua. Costa Rica began to trade corn, wheat, mules, textiles, metal implements and more luxury items to import.
There were three main things that made Costa Rica become an important settlement in South America. These reasons are the difficulties inherent in long distance transportation of goods, the dwindling supply of indigenous labor, and other econmoic crisis that affect the new colony. All of these reason became a great reason for people to start settling there themselves as well as bringing animals.
Garrigues, R. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.angelfire.com/bc/gonebirding/colony.html
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.travelcostarica.nu/history
Although Costa Rica had gold and precious stones the Spanish conquistadors did not want to settle Costa Rica because of the competition and jealously among all teh Spaniards and the climate in Costa Rica made it hard for the Spanish to conquest the island. Despite the climate, Spain dominated the native people and for many years only small number of spanish settlers inhabited the area.
In 1562, Juan Vasquez de Coronado brought men and supplies from Nicaragua to help the struggling settlement. Although this help the population more and brought a more white population as well it was still a struggling settlement. Finally in the 17 century people began to realize what Costa Rica could offer to South America. Costa Rica began to produce agricultural needs and maintain an export trade to Panama and Nicaragua. Costa Rica began to trade corn, wheat, mules, textiles, metal implements and more luxury items to import.
There were three main things that made Costa Rica become an important settlement in South America. These reasons are the difficulties inherent in long distance transportation of goods, the dwindling supply of indigenous labor, and other econmoic crisis that affect the new colony. All of these reason became a great reason for people to start settling there themselves as well as bringing animals.
Garrigues, R. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.angelfire.com/bc/gonebirding/colony.html
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.travelcostarica.nu/history
The population pyramid picture is showing for the year 1990 that there was 3.078 million people living there. The widest section of the graph are ages 20-29 which makes up the majority of the population.
This population pyramid shows the population of Costa Rica in the year 2010. Unlike the map before there are more males that are dominating the population and the majority of them are 20-24 since that is the widest part of the pyramid.