QCOSTARICA – If your plans in the coming months include visiting the Chirripó National Park, and hiking to the highest peak in Costa Rica (3,820 meters above sea level), starting Tuesday, September 6, you can reserve your spot. Admissions for ...

QCOSTARICA – A scientific project with Costa Rican technology is ready to travel to space at the end of November in order to find solutions against the “Panama disease“, one of the most severe threats facing the banana industry worl...

QCOSTARICA – A reduction in fuels went into effect in the early hours of this Friday, following the approval by the regulatory authority, the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP), on Wednesday. The cost of gasoline at the pu...

QCOSTARICA – The Value Added Tax (VAT) – Impuesto al Valor Agregado (IVA) in Spanish – for engineering, architecture, surveying, and civil engineering services will go from 4% to 8% starting today, September 1, which is causing conc...

QCOSTARICA – Drivers traveling along route 27 (San Jose – Caldera) will pay less for tolls at the different stations starting next Monday, September 6, thanks to an extraordinary adjustment in rates due to the stable behavior of the dolla...

QCOSTARICA – The 10 millionth passenger arrived this Wednesday at the Guanacaste Airport since it opening. Jake Hubbell, a 26-year-old American tourist from Colorado, arrived in Costa Rica for the wedding of his best friend. He landed at 11:13 ...

QCOSTARICA – The regulatory authority, the Autoridad Reguladora de los Servicios Públicos (ARESEP), announced this Wednesday a reduction in fuel prices: ¢145 for a liter of super gasoline, ¢156 for a liter of regular, and ¢129 for diesel. W...

QCOSTARICA – If Costa Rica decriminalizes recreational cannabis, it will have access to “a new world of benefits and opportunities for the country,” according to businessmen and experts consulted by La Republica. More tourists, a ne...

QCOSTARICA – The months of September and October are the rainiest months of the rainy season. This year, it is expected that the rains will be far more intense than normal, mainly due to an above normal Atlantic hurricane season. For this, the ...

QCOSTARICA – The Office of the Comptroller General of Costa Rica – Contraloría General de la República (CGR) – received an appeal against the election of the German company, Dekra, as operator of the vehicular inspection service (...