The Average Lifespan of a business in costa rica
The average lifespan of businesses in Costa Rica varies significantly by industry, but detailed lifespan statistics by major industry are scarce in the available data. However, there are some general insights about business longevity and success: Studies based on data...
The Shrimp with a Sonic Boom: Mangrove “Bacon Frying” Explained
Costa Rica’s mangroves are where adventure goes quiet and your ears do the exploring. Drift a kayak through tea-colored creeks and you’ll hear a strange breakfast soundtrack—snap, crackle, pop—while howler monkeys commentate from above. It’s culture in stereo: the old...
Why Nicoya, Costa Rica Is a Blue Zone of Thriving Elders
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Live longer in Costa Rica Blue Zone: Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula is one of five regions in the world referred to as a “blue zone,” home to some of the oldest and healthiest people on the planet. Most blue zone...
TRIBU-CR: Costa Rica’s New Digital Tax System
By Manfred Peters, GM Attorneys at Law Starting in October, a new online platform will change how residents, business owners, and investors handle taxes in Costa Rica. Big changes are coming to the way Costa Rica manages taxes. Beginning October 6, 2025, the...
Is Costa Rica the Silicon Valley of Central America?
Costa Rica wraps business ambition with pure-life energy. In a single week, you can pitch a venture fund in San José, mountain-bike cloud forest trails, catch a marimba night in the city, spot scarlet macaws on a jungle river, tour a coworking villa while scouting...
Gateway to the Americas: Why Global Companies Choose Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Where Business Meets the Good Life Costa Rica is where serious business meets the good life. You can surf Witch's Rock at sunrise, tour marimba workshops and galleries by afternoon, watch scarlet macaws flash over rainforest at dusk, then close a deal from...
Costa Rica’s Bush Medicine: Backyard Cures You’ve Never Heard Of
Most travellers come for surf breaks, hanging bridges and rumbling volcanoes, then stay for gallery nights, marimba in the plaza and ceviche still singing with lime. Step behind a tin-roofed home, though, and you’ll find another strand of Costa Rican life: a backyard...
Paragliding Costa Rica: lift-off over jungles, reefs and volcano rims
Costa Rica is built for adventure. One hour you’re sipping a café chorreado after a dawn surf; the next you’re drifting above jungle canopies, tracing the curve of a Pacific bay while scarlet macaws flash like confetti below. Culture hums on the ground—marimbas in the...
Whistling Conversations: Costa Rica’s Forgotten Birdsong Language
Costa Rica is famous for surf breaks and cloud forests, but it’s the small, odd, human things that give the country its heartbeat: adventures told over gallo pinto, culture shared on a breezy veranda, entertainment that might be a neighbour’s marimba or a story...
Fashion Flash – To Be or Not to Be-Kini
[vc_row full_width="full_width"][vc_column][vc_column_text]The original two-piece bathing suit invented in 1946 by Louis Reard, was named “bikini,” after Bikini Atoll, where nuclear bomb testing was taking place. So, is the bikini the nuclear bomb of the last...