... place for vacation. The population is 3, 334, 074 and the area is 187,000 sq km. The places of interests are Mauseleo de Artigas, Mercado de Puerto, Feria de Tristan Narvaja, the Uruguayan Littoral, and the Uruguyan Riviera. The principal citiy is Montevideo. Argentina Argentina is a very punctuious and great country ... attractions. The population is around 6, 122, 515 and an area of 20, 752 sq km. The places of interests are La Liberta, Montecristo Cloud Forests, and Ruinas de Tazumal. The principal city is San Salvador. Honduras Honduras is a plesent and good active country. The popul...

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... early hapless settlers who came to Costa Rica were left largely to their own devices, and the first successful establishment of a colonial city was not until 1562, when Juan Vasquez de Coronado founded Cartago. When Mexico rebelled against Spain in 1821, Costa Rica and the rest of Central America followed suit. Two years later, a faction in Costa Rica even opted to ... of geologically active sites all around the rim of the Pacific Ocean. The country contains 60 dormant or extinct volcanoes, as well as 7 active volcanoes: Arenal, Irazu, Poas, and Rincon de la Vieja being a few of the mos...

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Alexis Leyva Machado, also known as "Kcho-, was born in 1970 on the Isla de la Juventud, a small island off the southern coast of Cuba. Today he is known as the island's most internationally established artist since Wiferdo Lam. His sculptures are known for not only ... bring up to $4,000 for a drawing and up to $75,000 for just a small sculpture. His work can be viewed at www.ciac.ca/expos/kcho.html. Carmen Borrase Povedano de Mills is a painter born in Costa Rica. The artist uses fabrics and other elements such as strings, roses, and religious medals in her paintings. She shows a tremendou...

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... be at least 60 dormant ones and only seven are still active. The volcanic activity has been placed into four different Cordilleras according to the location of them: Cordillera de Guanacaste, Cordillera de Tilaran, Cordillera Central and Cordillera Talamanca. Meseta Central is where a main part of the agriculture comes from because of its rich soils and amounts of rainfall they receive; almost ... forest and witness the biodiversity on the summit. Then make it down to the active crater and see the steaming sulfur lagoon in the middle. Then continue up to the La Paz waterfall to take pic...

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