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The Costa Rican national identity card (Spanish: cédula de identidad) is a credit card-sized identity document issued to citizens of Costa Rica.On one side, it includes a photo of the person, a personal identification number, and the card's owner personal information (complete name, gender, birth place, birth date, and others), and the user's signature.
Between 1882 and 1885, Costa Rica developed a civil code modeled on the Chilean Civil Code of 1857, the Napoleonic Code of 1804, and the Spanish Civil Code of 1851. [1] The 1885 Civil Code required married women to submit to the marital authority of their spouse, including wherever he chose to reside. [21]
Children born overseas to a Costa Rican citizen are Costa Rican by birth, not by naturalisation, as stated in the Constitution of Costa Rica. As of 1 October 2019, Costa Rican citizens had visa-free or visa on arrival access to 150 countries and territories, ranking the Costa Rican passport 27th overall and first among Central American ...
In certain countries, such as Costa Rica, a cédula de identidad is the only valid identity document for many purposes; for example, a driving license or passport is not valid to open a bank account. The term "cédula" may also colloquially refer to the number on the identity document. [citation needed] Cédula de identidad, Buenos Aires (1934)
The National Archives of Costa Rica (Spanish: Archivo Nacional de Costa Rica) is a decentralized institution of the Ministry of Culture and Youth. It is the governing body of the National Archival System, which manages Costa Rica's documentary heritage and collaborates in the control of the country's notarial activities. Its goals are to ...
The League War was the second civil war of Costa Rica, as a member state of the Federal Republic of Central America.It passed between September and October 1835 in the Central Valley of Costa Rica.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights in Costa Rica have evolved significantly in the past decades. Same-sex sexual relations have been legal since 1971. [ 1 ] In January 2018, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights made mandatory the approbation of same-sex marriage , adoption for same-sex couples and the removal of people's ...
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Costa Rica since May 26, 2020 as a result of a ruling by the Supreme Court of Justice.Costa Rica was the first country in Central America to recognize and perform same-sex marriages, the third in North America after Canada and the United States, [1] and the 28th to do so worldwide.