Costa Ricans, the Glossary
Costa Ricans (Costarricenses, colloquially known as Ticos) are the citizens of Costa Rica, a multiethnic, Spanish-speaking nation in Central America.[1]
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101 relations: Africa, Afro-Costa Ricans, Alajuela, Alajuela Province, Americas, Asia, Asian people, Baháʼí Faith, Black people, Boruca, Bribri people, Buddhism, Cabécar people, California, Canada, Captaincy General of Guatemala, Caribbean Basin, Cartago Province, Cartago, Costa Rica, Castizo, Catholic Church, Chile, Chinese people in Costa Rica, Christianity, Christopher Columbus, Climate, Colombia, Conquistador, Costa Rica, Costa Rican Americans, Costa Rican Spanish, Criollo people, Cuba, Culture of Costa Rica, Developing country, Egalitarianism, El Salvador, Encomienda, Europe, Evangelicalism, Flag of Costa Rica, Germany, Glee (TV series), Gold, Guanacaste Province, Guatemala, Guaymí language, Habsburg Spain, Hacienda, Han Chinese, ... Expand index (51 more) »
- Central American people by nationality
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Afro-Costa Ricans
Afro-Costa Ricans are Costa Ricans of African ancestry.
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Alajuela
Alajuela is a district in the Alajuela canton of the Alajuela Province of Costa Rica.
Alajuela Province
Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
Asian people
Asian people (or Asians, sometimes referred to as Asiatic peopleUnited States National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings. 2004. November 17, 2006.: Asian Continental Ancestry Group is also used for categorical purposes.) are the people of the continent of Asia.
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Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
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Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
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Boruca
The Boruca (also known as the Brunca or the Brunka) are the indigenous people living in Costa Rica.
Bribri people
The Bribri (also Abicetava) are an Indigenous people in eastern Costa Rica and northern Panama.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Cabécar people
The Cabécar are an indigenous group of the remote Talamanca region of eastern Costa Rica.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Captaincy General of Guatemala
The Captaincy General of Guatemala (Capitanía General de Guatemala), also known as the Kingdom of Guatemala (Reino de Guatemala), was an administrative division of the Spanish Empire, under the viceroyalty of New Spain in Central America, including the present-day nations of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, and the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Caribbean Basin
The Caribbean Basin or Caribbean Proper (or the Caribbean Basin regionUnited States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance, "Caribbean Basin Initiative--1983: Hearing Before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. 544, April 13, 1983." Volume 98, Issue 277 of S.
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Cartago Province
Cartago, which means Carthage in Spanish, is a province of central Costa Rica.
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Cartago, Costa Rica
Cartago is the head city of Cartago canton of the Cartago Province, and is composed of the Oriental and Occidental districts as stated in the administrative divisions of Costa Rica.
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Castizo
CastizoPronunciation in Latin American Spanish: (fem. Castiza) was a racial category used in 18th-century Colonial Mexico to refer to people who were three-quarters Spanish by descent and one-quarter Amerindian.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
Chinese people in Costa Rica
Chinese people have been immigrating to Costa Rica since the mid-nineteenth century.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Conquistador
Conquistadors or conquistadores (lit 'conquerors') was a term used to refer to Spanish and Portuguese colonialists of the early modern period.
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.
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Costa Rican Americans
Costa Rican Americans (estadounidenses de origen costarricense) are Americans of at least partial Costa Rican descent.
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Costa Rican Spanish
Costa Rican Spanish (español costarricense) is the form of the Spanish language spoken in Costa Rica.
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Criollo people
In Hispanic America, criollo is a term used originally to describe people of full Spanish descent born in the viceroyalties.
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Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.
Culture of Costa Rica
Costa Rican culture has been heavily influenced by Spanish culture ever since the Spanish colonization of the Americas including the territory which today forms Costa Rica.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Egalitarianism
Egalitarianism, or equalitarianism, is a school of thought within political philosophy that builds on the concept of social equality, prioritizing it for all people.
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El Salvador
El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America.
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Encomienda
The encomienda was a Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Flag of Costa Rica
The national flag of Costa Rica (Bandera de Costa Rica) is based on a design created in 1848 and consists of two blue stripes, two white stripes, and a central red stripe which is twice as wide as each of the other four.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Glee (TV series)
Glee (stylized as glee) is an American musical comedy-drama television series that aired on Fox in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.
Guanacaste Province
Guanacaste is a province of Costa Rica located in the northwestern region of the country, along the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
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Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America.
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Guaymí language
Guaymí, or Ngäbere, also known as Movere, Chiriquí, and Valiente, is spoken by the indigenous Ngäbe people in Panama and Costa Rica.
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Habsburg Spain
Habsburg Spain refers to Spain and the Hispanic Monarchy, also known as the Catholic Monarchy, in the period from 1516 to 1700 when it was ruled by kings from the House of Habsburg.
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Hacienda
A hacienda (or; or) is an estate (or finca), similar to a Roman latifundium, in Spain and the former Spanish Empire.
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
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Heredia Province
Heredia is a province of Costa Rica.
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Heredia, Costa Rica
Heredia is a district in the Heredia canton of Heredia province, Costa Rica.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
Hispanic
The term Hispanic (hispano) refers to people, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad broadly.
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America.
Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica
Indigenous people of Costa Rica, or Native Costa Ricans, are the people who lived in what is now Costa Rica prior to European and African contact and the descendants of those peoples.
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Italian Costa Ricans
Italian Costa Ricans (italo-costaricani; ítalo-costarricenses) are Costa Rican-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Costa Rica during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in Costa Rica.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
La Sabana Metropolitan Park
La Sabana Metropolitan Park (Parque Metropolitano La Sabana) is located in downtown San José, Costa Rica.
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Liberia, Costa Rica
Liberia is a district and the largest city in the Guanacaste Province of Costa Rica, located northwest of the national capital, San José.
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Limón
Limón, commonly known as Puerto Limón (Port Lemon in English), is a district, the capital city and main hub of Limón Province, as well as of the Limón canton in Costa Rica.
Limón Province
Limón is one of seven provinces in Costa Rica.
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Limonese Creole
Limonese Creole, also called Limonese, Limón Creole English or Mekatelyu is a dialect of Jamaican Patois (Jamaican Creole), an English-based creole language, spoken in Limón Province on the Caribbean Sea coast of Costa Rica.
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Maleku people
The Maleku are an indigenous people of Costa Rica located in the Guatuso Indigenous Reserve near the town of Guatuso (San Rafael de Guatuso).
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Mangue language
Mangue, also known as Chorotega,Daniel G. Brinton.
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Matambú
Matambú is a district of the Hojancha canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.
Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
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Mestizo
Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
Muisca
The Muisca (also called Chibcha) are an indigenous people and culture of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, Colombia, that formed the Muisca Confederation before the Spanish conquest.
Mulatto
Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
Nahuatl
Nahuatl, Aztec, or Mexicano is a language or, by some definitions, a group of languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.
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Ngäbe
The Ngäbe are an indigenous people within the territories of present-day Panama and Costa Rica in Central America.
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest country in Central America, comprising.
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Nicaraguans
Nicaraguans (Nicaragüenses; also called Nicas) are people inhabiting in, originating or having significant heritage from Nicaragua. Costa Ricans and Nicaraguans are central American people by nationality.
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Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.
Panama Canal
The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Puntarenas
Puntarenas is a city in the Puntarenas Province, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
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Puntarenas Province
Puntarenas is a province of Costa Rica.
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Real Madrid CF
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
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Remittance
A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland.
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San José Costa Rica Temple
The San José Costa Rica Temple is the 87th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
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San José Province
San José is a province of Costa Rica.
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San José, Costa Rica
San José (meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element; it has symbol Ag (derived from Proto-Indo-European ''*h₂erǵ'')) and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. The metal is found in the Earth's crust in the pure, free elemental form ("native silver"), as an alloy with gold and other metals, and in minerals such as argentite and chlorargyrite.
Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spaniards
Spaniards, or Spanish people, are a people native to Spain.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
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Spanish personal pronouns
Spanish personal pronouns have distinct forms according to whether they stand for the subject (nominative) or object, and third-person pronouns make an additional distinction for direct object (accusative) or indirect object (dative), and for reflexivity as well.
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Star of David
The Star of David is a generally recognized symbol of both Jewish identity and Judaism.
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State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
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Térraba
Térraba is an indigenous territory in Costa Rica of the Naso people.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea.
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Viceroyalty of New Granada
The Viceroyalty of the New Kingdom of Granada (Virreinato del Nuevo Reino de Granada), also called Viceroyalty of New Granada or Viceroyalty of Santafé, was the name given on 27 May 1717 to the jurisdiction of the Spanish Empire in northern South America, corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Venezuela.
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Voseo
In Spanish grammar, voseo is the use of vos as a second-person singular pronoun, along with its associated verbal forms, in certain regions where the language is spoken.
Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America.
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See also
Central American people by nationality
- Belizean people
- Belizeans
- Costa Rican people
- Costa Ricans
- Guatemalan people
- Guatemalans
- Honduran people
- Hondurans
- Nicaraguan people
- Nicaraguans
- Panamanian people
- Panamanians
- Salvadoran people
- Salvadorans
Costa Rican people
- Costa Ricans
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Ricans
Also known as Costa Rican people, Hermanticos, People of Costa Rica, Ticos.
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