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COSTA RICA: NATIONAL SYMBOLS. Costa Rica is a Central American country with a rugged geography, including tropical forests and coasts in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Although its capital, San José, is home to cultural institutions, such as the Pre-Columbian Gold Museum, Costa Rica is known for its beaches, volcanoes, and biodiversity. Approximately a quarter of its area corresponds to protected forests, full of fauna, such as the spider monkey and quetzals.

National Flag: The Flag of Costa Rica was created on September 29, 1848 along with the National Shield. Tradition establishes that the conception and design of the current flag, in force since that year, corresponded to Doña Pacifica Fernández Oreamuno, wife of the first president of Costa Rica; José Castro Madriz, inspired by the flag of France.

The flag is tricolor by means of five horizontally placed stripes, a red one in the center between two white stripes, each of which is followed by a blue one. The width of each strip is one-sixth that of the flag, except the red one, which is two-sixths.

The National Pavilion differs because centered on the red band, it has the National Shield embroidered on a white background.

The colors represent: Blue, the sky that covers Costa Rica. White, represents the peace that reigns in Costa Rica. Red, love to live, bloodshed for freedom and generous attitude.

National Shield: The Shield of Costa Rica was promulgated on September 29, 1848, together with the current national flag, during the administration of José María Castro Madriz, president of the Republic, also its parts such as volcanoes or seas have meanings.

The blazon consists of a golden frame that represents the grain of frame there are three smoking volcanoes, which symbolize the thr cross the country and an extensive light green valley between tw

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Ocean and Caribbean Sea, which bathe the west and east coasts of the country, respectively, as well as those of Central America). In each of these there is a merchant ship representing the maritime history of the country. On the horizon, to the left of the shield, a rising sun made of old cannon gold can be seen.

The shield is closed by two dark green myrtle palms joined by a ribbon with the legend "Republic of Costa Rica." The seven arched silver stars represent the current provinces of the Republic. The finish is formed by a light blue ribbon that serves as a crown with the legend Central America.

National Anthem: The National Anthem of the Republic of Costa Rica is the national anthem of Costa Rica since 1852. Its music was composed by Manuel María Gutiérrez Flores, who dedicated the score to the Frenchman Gabriel-Pierre Lafond. The music was created to receive delegates from England and the United States in that year by the Webster-Crampton Treaty.

It has had several letters; the current one was written for a contest called in 1903 by the Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra government, to give the hymn a letter that reflected the idea of being Costa Rican. From the Independent period of 1821 to the Republican period, Costa Rica had no national anthem.

Then, the musician and Director of the Costa Rican Military Band, Manuel María Gutiérrez, was called to the Presidential Palace. When he was told that the national anthem of Costa Rica had to be played, he replied that since the Independence of Spain, such an anthem had not yet existed. Then, President Juan Rafael Mora Porras ordered Gutiérrez to create it immediately as a teacher of the military band.

National Bird: The brown thrush, yigüirro, brown blackbird, canchana, huertero "choroteca" blackbird or Zanata according to Sol (Turdus grayi) is a species of passerine bird of the Turdidae family, common in Central America, although it is found from southern Texas and Mexico to Panama and Colombia is the national bird of Costa Rica. It has a song of various tones that is similar to that of the lyre b that it hears to compose it. It is normally 23 to 27 cm in length plumage is brown, and darker above than below (specimens

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from more humid regions are darker than others). It has stripes on the throat. The eyes are red. Juvenile individuals are spotted.

National Tree: The Guanacaste (Enterolobium cyclocarpum) was declared a national tree by decree No. 7 of August 31, 1959. It was due to a campaign carried out by the director of the now-defunct newspaper La Tribuna, as a tribute to the gesture of the Guanacastecans to annex the country.

It has thick, gray, rough bark, it is used in tanneries to tan hides; In addition, it is crushed, fermented and the liquid is used to wash clothes. It has large leaves, made up of numerous small, alternate, bipinate leaves that lack a petiole. The leaf is kept green for eight to nine months out of the year.

The flowers are small, in the form of bulbous specks of very long yellowish-white stamens, they are born in small groups in short petioles, they are not showy, they bloom when the tree is already covered with tender foliage in the months of May and June, they belong to the group of flowers that produce the most nectar.

National Flower: The purple guaria or candelaria flower (Guarianthe skinneri) is a species of epiphytic orchid native to the humid forests of Central America. It is distributed from a good part of the humid forests of Chiapas in Mexico to records west of Panama and Costa Rica.

They have ribbed pseudobulbs, normally bifoliate, with dystical leaves, which form a pendulous plant with frill shapes and unifloral auxiliary inflorescences in which the flower is face up with a truncated appendage towards the lip the one with an apicule.

Its flowers are large and wide-petalled, it has a leaf that comes out of the apex of the pseudobulb. They produce three or five flowers, which last 1 to 4 weeks....