APTOPIX Costa Rica Holy Week picture

APTOPIX Costa Rica Earthquake
AP Images;  January 9, 2009 ;     239 words ...A road sits covered by landslides caused by an earthquake outside of Vera Blanca, Costa Rica, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. Helicopters plucked tourists from destroyed, mountaintop resorts as the death toll from Costa Rica's magnitude-6.1 earthquake rose to at least 9 victims, the Red Cross said Friday.

APTOPIX Costa Rica Religion
AP Images;  July 30, 2008 ;     243 words ...Catholic faithful pray to the Virgin of Los Angeles, know as "La Negrita," at the Basilica of Los Angeles in Cartago, Costa Rica, Wednesday, July 30, 2008. As many as two million Catholic faithful will make the religious pilgrimage this week to pay their respects to Costa Rica's patron Saint who is

APTOPIX Costa Rica China
AP Images;  November 16, 2008 ;     224 words ...China's President Hu Jintau waves upon his arrival at the Juan Santamaria International Airport in Alajuela, in the outskirts of San Jose, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2008. Hu is on a two-day official visit to Costa Rica. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

APTOPIX Costa Rica Climate Change
AP Images;  May 28, 2008 ;     246 words ...An endangered Blue Jeans Dart Frog, Dendrobates pumilio, rests on a leaf at the INBIO Park in Heredia, Costa Rica, Wednesday, May 28, 2008. Scientists believe the decline in tropical frogs is related to global warming. The presidents of Mexico, Central American and the Caribbean are meeting in

APTOPIX Costa Rica Honduras Coup
AP Images;  July 8, 2009 ;     251 words ...Ousted Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya looks on upon his arrival at the Juan Santamaria international airport near in San Jose, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Zelaya and Honduras' interim President Roberto Micheletti will meet tomorrow to discuss the situation in Honduras, with Costa Rica's President

APTOPIX Costa Rica Drought
AP Images;  May 23, 2008 ;     243 words ...The carcass of one of seven cows that died in scorched pastures of Mario Marenco's ranch is seen in Los Chiles, Costa Rica, 280 kilometers north of the capital of San Jose, Friday, May 23, 2008. Costa Rica's government declared a national emergency Thursday as hundreds of cattle have died in the

APTOPIX Costa Rica Turtles
AP Images;  November 19, 2007 ;     271 words ...A baby Olive Ridley sea turtle crawls to the sea past discarded turtle eggs at Ostional beach on the northern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2007. The community members of Ostional are allowed by the government to harvest up to one million sea turtle eggs to sell throughout Costa