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This is a list of festivals celebrated in Costa Rica: [1] This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
Danza de los Diablitos (The Dance of the Little Devils) is a three-day annual festival, held December 31 through January 2 by the Boruca people, an indigenous people in Costa Rica. The male participants of the tribe perform a ritual dance re-enacting the Spanish conquest wearing elaborate costumes.
The Festival de Bomba y Plena de San Antón (English: San Anton's Bomba and Plena Festival), is an annual celebration held in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as an extravaganza celebration of Bomba and Plena music genres and the traditions of Ponce's barrio San Antón.
Dancers at the San Sebastián Festival in San Juan, in 2013. Before the establishment of the modern festival, a small annual procession dedicated to the Saint Sebastian used to take place along San Sebastián Street (Calle San Sebastián) following a mass dedicated to the martyr as established by Juan Manuel Madrazo, parishioner of San José Church during the 1950s, [4] with the purpose to ...
22 March – United States 1–0 Costa Rica; 26 March – Costa Rica 2–0 Jamaica; 7 June – Costa Rica 1–0 Honduras; 11 June – Mexico 0–0 Costa Rica; 18 June – Costa Rica 2–0 Panama; 6 September – Costa Rica 3–1 United States; 10 September – Jamaica 1–1 Costa Rica; 11 October – Honduras 1–0 Costa Rica; 15 October ...
Palmares has an area of 1.14 km 2 [3] and an elevation of 1,017 metres. [1] It is in the Central Valley (Valle Central), 6 kilometers southeast of the city of San Ramón , 38 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital city of Alajuela , and 56 kilometers from the national capital city of San Jose .
In 1824, the Virgin was declared Costa Rica's patron saint. La negrita now resides on a gold, jewel-studded platform at the main altar in the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles in Cartago. Each 2 August, on the anniversary of the statuette's discovery, pilgrims travel 22 kilometres (14 mi) from San José to the basilica.
The capital city of Santa Cruz, named Santa Cruz, is a typical Costa Rican rural town. Its inhabitants are very diverse and consist mostly of farmers, fishermen, workers or employees of several of the many hotels located in the vicinity. The town is known within Costa Rica for its cultural heritage and many historical traditions.