Accenture, named this year by Fortune Magazine as the world's most admired information technology services company, will be establishing a new delivery center in Costa Rica for the 70+ Search Technologies big data engineers based in the country, said a company press release. The Fortune 500 company announced earlier this month their acquisition of Search Technologies, a Herndon, Virginia-...

The Turrialba Volcano has been once again presenting eruptions since 12:30 a.m. this Monday morning. The eruption that took place at 12:30 a.m. presented a column that reached 500 meters above the crater and 3,840 meters above sea level (12,595.20). Another explosion was registered at 9:20 a.m. this time with a column of 400 meters above the crater, this one is still carrying on. Neighboring...

Editor’s note: The views expressed by guest columnists are not necessarily those of The Costa Rica Star, its advertisers, or its staff.  In a suspense-filled announcement, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared war Friday against the leaking of classified government information to the mainstream media. “These leaks hurt our government … We are taking a stand. This culture of leak...

The leading U.S. travel magazine, Travel+Leisure, published their top Central America picks this week, with Pérez Zeledón, Costa Rica's Hacienda AltaGracia topping the list. The resort, which received a score of 97.33 by the magazine, is described as follows: "Set on 865 acres of land in southern Costa Rica, this remote spot caters to its travelers from the moment of arrival — via its private ...

Two of Costa Rica’s best surfers, Noe Mar McGonagle and Carlos “Cali” Muñoz had another great session at the US Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach, California where they both managed to qualify to the fourth round. Carlos Muñoz, described by the WSL site today as “the embodiment of the pura vida surfing life”, showed his surfing skills today and scored one of the best waves in the day, which e...

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On Monday, August 21, 2017 many will be able to witness a wonderful phenomenon, people in the United States will get to see a Total Eclipse of the Sun, while in Costa Rica it will be seen as a Partial Eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly between the sun and the Earth and blocks the sun totally or partially; in a total eclipse the sun’s outer atmosphere (the corona) beco...

Hyunday Team pilot, Danny Formal, won the fourth date of the Costa Rica Touring Car Championship that took place this past Sunday at Parque Viva. In an exciting event that had the most accidents so far in the CTCC, Formal was able to win the first place and cut the distance from the still leader of the general ranking José Andrés MOntalto from Toyota. Ford driver, Felipe Vargas, lost control o...

On minute 5:55 of the video below, you can hear Floyd Mayweather mentioning some weeks back he had a sparring he was working with from Costa Rica and that had a "very awkward" style, in response to analyst's Brendan Schaub comment that he had never fought someone that moved like Conor McGregor and if he had anyone in his camp that could "mimic his movement". Since then, there had been rumors on wh...

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Costa Rican athlete Juan Diego Castro finished fourth in the 2017 IAAF World U18 Championships in the 800 meters track running that is being held at the Moi International Sports Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. With an extraordinary effort, the young athlete established a new national record and made history for Costa Rica. Castro finished with a time of 1:49.76, the national best record before thi...

Stattoos and Territorio de Zaguates (Land of the Strays) dog shelter, will be hosting a fund raiser on Saturday, July 22 at Stattoos Alajuela starting at 10 a.m. Stattoos will be doing 100 tattoos at a price of 10,000.00 colones (under $20) but these tattoos are limited to small designs predetermined by the tattoo shop, a heart, a paw print, a bone, a star or rose are just some of the options a...

Small Lava Lake at Turrialba Volcano Photo Credit: M.Sc. Paul Vega, LANAMME-UCR. Earlier this week we reported on the activity at Poás Volcano which has presented several strombolian eruptions with ejection of small lava bombs; today the National Seismology Network reported on the discovery at Turrialba Volcano of a small lava lake in the central area of the crater. The small sized lake was ...

https://youtu.be/Bcc4ohNmDzw HGTV Ultimate House Hunt 2017 “features amazing homes in dreamy spots around the world”, one of them is a luxury estate in Costa Rica. The contest highlights exceptional homes from across the globe in eight categories, including two new categories this year, Kitchen & Dining and Modern Masterpieces. Other categories are Curb Appeal, Outdoor Retreats, Living ...

The Poás Volcano in Alajuela, Costa Rica is presenting activity this Monday evening (July 3, starting at 10:30 p.m.) and it is expelling fragments of fresh lava from the main emission point, denominated Boca Roja (Red Mouth), reported Dr. Mauricio Mora from the National Seismology Network. This type of activity, known as strombolian eruptions began in the early morning hours of July 1st whe...

Mr. President, it’s time you learned how to be president of the United States of America. All we have to go on are the histories of 44 past presidents dating back more than 200 years that were stewards of this experiment in democracy. Some were great but most were political duds. But sir, you take the cake. A new-type president with a smart phone connected directly to the American peo...

Photo Credit: Facebook Los Jueguetes del Parqueo / illustration purposes only The movie Cars 3 was just released in theaters worldwide, and now in Costa Rica fans of this great movie can take pictures with their favorite character at the Children’s Museum in San José. Ten vehicles were transformed to look exactly like the characters in the move, Lightning McQueen, Mater, Luigi, Francesco, Gu...

Coffee from Finca don Antonio, in Copey de Dota which is cultivated at between 1,800 to 2,200 meters above sea level, reached a record price of up to USD$8,060.00 per quintal (100 lbs or 46 kilograms) in the electronic auction organized by contest Taza de la Excelencia (Cup of Excellence), organization headquartered in Portland Oregon; while in the New York stock market the price reached $123.80 p...

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Foreigners that live in Costa Rica have learned that knowing Spanish is sometimes not enough to understand or communicate properly in the country. Costa Ricans seem to always have a nickname for things and places, there are also a lot of phrases used by “ticos” that can be both funny and confusing. For those foreigners that have spent enough time in Costa Rica and are already familiar with the ...

Joshua Ten Brink, a Costa Rican tourist who was enjoying a few days of vacation in Tambor beach, Puntarenas, was able to capture an amazing video this Monday. Brink explained he was taking a last stroll on the beach when he saw what he thought was a log in the ocean, he then noticed it was moving and realized it was a crocodile, he ran for his camera and was able to capture the reptile just...

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Photo Credit: Mauricio Cortés / Rincón de la Vieja eruption seen from Upala The National University’s Volcanology and Seismology Research Institute (OVSICORI), reported an eruption at the Rincón de la Vieja Volcano in Guanacaste at 2:56 p.m. this Friday, June 23, where the column reached 2000 meters above the crater and 3,916 meters above sea level, (12844.48 ft). According to the report by ...

American professional triathlete Kevin Collington took the first place in the pro category of the Ironman 70.3 Costa Rica in Guanacaste with a time of 3:43:21. The second place was for Colombian Carlos Quinchara who stopped the clock at 3:47:58, the third spot was taken by Felipe Van de Wyngard from Chile with a mark of 3:49:44. Costa Rican Leonardo Chacón came in fourth with a time of 3:53:...

Photo Credit: Dr. Pablo Ruiz Turrialba, Poás and Rincón de la Vieja volcanoes have continued to register activity on and off throughout all week, with several eruptions sometimes including ash but mostly consisting in gases and steam. The eruptions registered in Poás volcano are non-explosive but extend for long periods of time presenting internal seismic activity and low frequency tremor that ...

August 22 and 23 in the Melico Salazar Theater in San José The Virtuous Children of Caucasus will be presenting their show for the first time in Costa Rica. Dance, acrobatics in the air and incredible spins are part of the abilities this group of thirty talented children - whose ages range from 6 to 14 years - and originating from Georgia (Eurasia), will showcase in Costa Rica. Inheritors of...

A group of three American tourist and their Costa Rican guide were able to capture today a video of a young tapir (Tapirus bairdii) bathing in a sector of the Celeste River in the Tenorio Volcano National Park in Guanacaste (video included at the end of the article). The tourism guide in an interview with local journalist Allan Jara, explains that the video was taken when it had just began to r...

Photo: Casa del Cielo - Four Seasons Costa Rica The Costa Rica Hotel Chamber affirms that the big diversity of tourists that Costa Rica receives justifies the existence of a wide variety of hotels. In the country, you can find one star hotels as well as hotels for the most demanding clients that want and expect the highest level of service. Even though many times the prices in Costa Rica are...

“Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired” is the name of the documentary based on the story of Nobel Peace award winner and former two-time president of Costa Rica Oscar Arias Sánchez. The documentary directed by Dawn Gifford Engle will be released in the Monte-Carlo Television Festival that is taking place in Monaco June 16-20. The synopsis included in the “Festival de Télévision de Monte-Carlo” rea...

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The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2017 published by the Institute for Economics and Peace found that the world became 0.28% more peaceful over the past year, even though over the last decade it has become considerably less peaceful. The GPI takes into consideration peace indicators such as the homicide rate, the impact of terrorism, armed services personnel in the population, relationship with neigh...

During the “Cup of Excellence” contest which took place this week in the Bouganvillea Hotel in Heredia, coffee tasters from nine countries chose coffee from Don Antonio farm part of the Group Los Grande de Copey, from the Tarrazú region, as the best in Costa Rica. Experienced coffee tasters from Japan, South Korea, Australia, Bulgaria, China, Germany, U.S.A., Colombia and Costa Rica tasted coff...

Guanacaste is without a doubt the preferred destination of tourists in Costa Rica, specially foreign tourists, the beautiful beaches along the Northern Pacific coast are, of course, the main reason for this; however, there are so many other places to visit in Guanacaste aside from the beaches, one of them is the area of Miravalles in Bagaces. Bagaces was one of the communities affected by Hurri...

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Costa Rica’s Telecommunications Superintendence (Sutel)  announced this week they are moving forward with the Connected Public Spaces program. The program envisions creating 985 wireless access points in 360 districts of the country's 82 counties or “cantones”. They began the bidding process to find a contractor to implement systems for free Wi-Fi in parks, plazas, libraries, train stations and...

Costa Rica has no shortage of hotels and lodging options, from luxury eco-lodges to beautiful boutique hotels and low-budget comfortable options; there are also several very “different” and unique hotels and hostels in the country and we have listed below a few of them: The Pipe House: The Pipe House is a small beach house with a unique concept located in Playa Grande, Guanacaste. This vacation...

Meet the changemakers promoting sustainable living in one of the world's greenest, and happiest, countries, Costa Rica:    ...

Feel Something is the first single released by Costa Rican Fátima Pinto, produced by Vibras The Music Company, this song is already being played in local radios and it has been reproduced almost 149 thousand times in Spotify. Fátima is only 17 years-old, she will graduate high school this year, and aside from her career in music, she also works as a model for Independent Model Management having...