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Costa rica

      Titles Descriptions
  1. Agaricales of Costa Rican Quercus Forests
  2. CIA World Factbook: Costa Rica
  3. Costa Rica Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
  4. Ethnologue Language Database: Costa Rica
  5. Maps of the Americas
  6. OTS Online: Organization for Tropical Studies
  7. Political Resources on the Net: Costa Rica
  8. VolcanoWorld Volcano Index
  9. World Travel Guide: Costa Rica

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Agaricales of Costa Rican Quercus Forests
A survey project documenting the diversity, distribution, and ecology of agarics and boletes (mushrooms) and other macrofungi associated with neotropical oak forests. Includes alphabetical lists by taxa and family, a macrofunghi database, pictures and a map.
     Author: Halling, Roy E. & Mueller, Gregory M.
     Subjects: costa rica, forests, fungi
     DeweyClass: 579.6
     Resource type: documents, images
CIA World Factbook: Costa Rica
Basic reference information about Costa Rica, including details of geography, people, economy, government, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues. Geographical information includes area, population, flag, maps, high and low points, co-ordinates, boundary length, border countries, climate, land use and natural resources.
     Author: CIA
     Subjects: costa rica
     DeweyClass: 917.286
     Resource type: document
Costa Rica Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2006
Detailed assessment of human rights practices in Costa Rica. Topics assessed include torture, arbitrary detention or exile, fair public trial, freedom of speech and press, freedom of assembly, movement and religion; democratic rights, worker rights, and discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability, language, or social status.
     Author: US Department of State
     Subjects: costa rica
     DeweyClass: 323.7286
     Resource type: document
Ethnologue Language Database: Costa Rica
A catalogue of all the languages and dialects spoken in Costa Rica, with details of the numbers of speakers of each language. Also some demographic data such as rates of literacy, blindness and deafness.
     Author: Summer Institute of Linguistics
     Subjects: costa rica
     DeweyClass: 409.7286
     Resource type: document
Maps of the Americas
Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering Canada, all the countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
     Author: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin
     Subjects: antigua and barbuda, argentina, bahamas, barbados, belize, bermuda, bolivia, brazil, canada, canadian geography, caribbean, central america, chile, colombia, costa rica, cuba, dominica, dominican republic, ecuador, el salvador, grenada, guatemala, guyana, haiti, honduras, jamaica, mexico, nicaragua, panama, paraguay, peru, saint kitts nevis, saint lucia, saint vincent, south america, suriname, trinidad and tobago, uruguay, venezuela, world maps
     DeweyClass: 912.7
     Resource type: map collection
OTS Online: Organization for Tropical Studies
A not-for-profit consortium of universities and research institutions in the United States and Latin America dedicated to providing leadership in education, research, and the wise use of natural resources in the tropics.
     Author: Organization for Tropical Studies
     Subjects: central america, costa rica, forests, tropics
     DeweyClass: 577
     Resource type: institution
Political Resources on the Net: Costa Rica
Listing of political resources relevant to Costa Rica, with links to parties, organisations, government, media and results of recent elections, where available.
     Author: Torre Argentina Societa di Servizi - Agora telematica Division
     Subjects: costa rica
     DeweyClass: 320.97286
     Resource type: documents, index
VolcanoWorld Volcano Index
Photographs, latitude and longitude, height, date of last eruption and descriptive information about numerous active volcanoes in over 40 countries in the world.
     Author: North Dakota University
     Subjects: antarctic, australian geography, bolivia, cameroon, cape verde, chad, chile, china, colombia, comoros, congo democratic republic, costa rica, dominica, ecuador, el salvador, ethiopia, greece, guatemala, iceland, india, indonesia, iran, italy, japan, kenya, libya, mexico, micronesia, mountaineering, new zealand, nicaragua, niger, papua new guinea, peru, philippines, rwanda, saint vincent, saudi arabia, solomon islands, spain, sudan, tanzania, turkey, uganda, volcanoes, zaire
     DeweyClass: 551.21
     Resource type: images, reference data
World Travel Guide: Costa Rica
Basic reference information about Costa Rica, such as area, capital, population, population density, geography, language, religion, time zone, history and government, plus business and social information, including details of accommodation, addresses, climate, regions, travel, visas, passports, money, health and public holidays.
     Author: Columbus Press
     Subjects: costa rica
     DeweyClass: 917.286
     Resource type: documents