The Gulf of Papagayo, located in northwestern Costa Rica, is a peaceful stretch of Pacific coastline known for its ...

Here's a interesting bizarre one. There's only one highway that connects Costa Rica and Nicaragua (I walked across it, shown above), but you can totally swim from one country to the other if you ...

The Internet application Google Maps has found itself in the middle of the ongoing border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Costa Rican media sources this week expressed outrage that the ...

Apparently the way Google Maps draws one particular section of the border between the two countries is off by about 3000 meters, showing it to be Nicaraguan territory when in fact it’s Costa Rican.