photo travelogue of Costa Rica, with images of beaches, river rafting, wildlife, rainforests, and cattle ranching. Includes a Costa Rica handbook, tips for photographers, and recommendations for hotels, destinations, and tours.
costa rica photo history The region was a potpourri of distinct cultures divided into chiefdoms. In the east along the Caribbean seaboard and along the southern Pacific shores, the peoples shared distinctly South American cultural traits. These groups--the Caribs on the
Caribbean and the Borucas, Chibchas, and Diquis in the southwest--were semi-nomadic hunters and fishermen who raised yucca, squash, pejibaye (bright orange palm fruits), and tubers supplemented by crustaceans, shrimp, lobster, and game; chewed coca; and lived in communal village huts surrounded by fortified palisades. The matriarchal Chibchas and Diquis had a highly developed slave system and were accomplished goldsmiths. Amulets, awls, tweezers for plucking out facial hair, beads and baubles, pendants and religious icons decorated in fantastical animist imagery were among the many items of gold expertly worked through the "lost wax" technique
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