Republic Costa Rica - a unitary independent democratic state. Absence of army already throughout almost 50 years became pride of the people of the country.
The Head of the state and the governments of Costa Rica is the president. The maximum legislature - Legislative assembly. Country capital - San Jose.
the country Population has exceeded 3,5 million persons also continues to grow with a speed more 2 % a year. Specific national feature of Costa Rica, unlike other countries of region, it is possible to consider high extent of solidity of ethnic composition of the population - 80 % of all inhabitants natives of Spain, 17 compound; % - mongrels, only 2 % - the Afro-Americans brought in the past and the beginning of this century from islands of West Indies, first of all from Jamaica, for job on banana plantations. Indigenous population of this country which once met Columbus's vessels, - the Indians occupying swampy neritic lowlands, today remains no more than 5000. The primordial population in terrain of modern Costa Rica never was numerous that was contributed partly by a wide circulation of dense impervious wet tropical woods and mountain character of a landform bolshej to a country part. This factor has largely defined also composition of migrants from Spain (mainly from range of Galicia). In mass the poor peasants who have departed for ocean in search of the best share and free fertile land, but found on the new native land woods hardly giving in to an axe and more more a toil were migrants. Owing to an environment, small number of the indigenous population (inaccessibility of a low-cost man power), poverty of migrants development of terrain of Costa Rica went slowly, mainly in most favourable regions of intrinsic vulcanic plateaus with rich bedrocks and a good climate. Predominance was gained by the small allotments treated by holders, unlike system huge latifundy, other countries of Latin America existing in the majority.
Character of colonisation has defined also a country state language - Spanish. However owing to close connections with the USA the majority of the population more or less tolerably expresses in English.
Kostarikantsev quite often name tiko. It is bound by that they use often in conversations diminutive forms with similar suffixes on sounding. Tiko, as a rule, very nurtured, complacent, hospitable, benevolent and sociable people. They very much like music and football, and in particular the country.
As well as other countries were colonys of Spain and invaded by natives of it, Costa Rica - the state with strong agency of a latin church. Kostarikantsy are rather religious, and more 90 their % practise official religion - catholicism, however in the country the right of conscience and any other confessions is intoned have all rights.
in our century there were some waves of immigration mainly from the European countries: Germany, Italy, England, Greece. They form small assemblages in various parts of the country. Quite often natives of Russia got to Costa Rica. As well as in the majority of the countries of the world, in Costa Rica there is the Chinese diaspore scattered on all country and in an essential measure dominating in restaurant business. So, adherents of a Chinese cuisine without difficulty can take pleasure in liked dishes.
Costa Rica immutably spends social policy and has attained on this path of the big successes. The share of electrification of the country attains 93 % (in the country the American standard of voltage 110 is used;). Rather impress successes in the field of education - literacy compounds 93 % (for comparison: in Spain 96 %, in Portugal 83 %, in Greece 91 %). One more important parametre which considerably is gating out Costa Rica against other developing countries, is a percent of security of the population pure drinking water which here attains 96. On life span Costa Rica (75 years) has farly led Russia (63 year).
