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By Myles Gough (Originally published on www.sciencealert.com March 20, 2015) Well done Costa Rica, well done. The Central American country has achieved a major clean energy milestone, meeting 100 percent of its power demand with renewable energy for 75 straight days. “The year 2015 has been one of electricity totally

Nació en Alemania en 1944. En su natal país fue marino y conductor de trens, llegó a su segunda patria Costa Rica en 1991, hombre afable, noble, amable, educado, filántropo, todo un caballero y amigo de todos. Vino a Quepos en busca de un clima que le asentara a su

Vida Autentica as two words translates into Authentic Life or Life Authentic. I personally think I prefer the latter though I do not know which is technically correct. Those two words, if thought of long enough, could mean so many things to the myriad different people who would try to

Dear Quepos, We are your friendly neighbors Parrita! We are writing you to tell you about a skate park project we would like to build for the youth of Parrita in a place called La Loma, Parrita. As you may have noticed, Parrita is still very much a developing canton

By Katherine Stanley Obando, Academic Director, JumpStart Costa Rica [email protected] La Inmaculada is a community located just outside of Quepos Center along the southwestern coast of Costa Rica. Along with its surrounding neighborhoods, La Inmaculada houses close to 3,000 residents whom work within the Quepos community. While there are small

We mourn the passing of Anthony (“Tony”) St. Aubyn Reid, a great friend, father, brother husband and son. Tony traveled the world many times, and had friends in all corners of the planet. Though he spent his formative years in the radically outrageous Ibiza, Spain, when he arrived in Quepos,

Although born in San Luis Obispo, Roger grew up in Chicago, later attending Stanford University, where he studied linguistics and life and nurtured his very inquisitive and nimble mind.  He had four siblings, two of whom still live in the States.  Roger traveled a lot when he was younger, lived

By Katherine Stanley Obando, Academic Director, JumpStart Costa Rica [email protected] Some students and teachers relish the year-end vacations as a time to kick back and relax – but not the participants in the upcoming JumpStart English Camp, to be held from January 5-30, 2015 in La Inmaculada de Quepos. Twenty

In English Por Angélica Sancho Quepos Bodyboard/Asociación Deportiva Body Board Aguirre, creación Setiembre 2012 Gracias al apoyo de Quepos, hemos logrado enviar a los seleccionados quepeños a los Mundiales ISA del 2012 y 2013. En ambas ocasiones con excelentes participaciones. Participaciones destacadas: Neydalie Vasquez, sexto lugar Mundial ISA Venezuela sub18

En Español By Angélica Sancho Quepos Bodyboard/Aguirre Bodyboard Sports Association, since September 2012 With the support of Quepos, we managed to send the selected quepeños ISA World 2012 and 2013. Both times with excellent performances. Previous Achievments: Neydalie Vasquez, sixth place ISA World sub18 female Venezuela 2012 Emilio Vargas, World

By Katherine Stanley Obando – July 6, 2014 Many Costa Ricans and their most fervent fans have been sitting in the eye of a storm for the past few weeks, struck dumb by amazement, watching wide-eyed as accolades all over the world for “the little team that could” have whirled

By Daniel Auberson  (Translation by Martin) It’s eight in the morning. I’m fast asleep in the middle of the pacific, 50km from the shore of Manuel Antonio, and 100m below the surface. I wake up refreshed after a night’s hunting, where I ate what must have been 20kg of small