Costa Rica is a country in Central America that is south of Nicaragua and north of Panama. It has oceans to the both sides, to the west the Pacific Ocean and to the east the Caribbean Sea. September 18, 1502 Christopher Columbus, on his fourth and final voyage to the new world, claimed the land that is now Costa Rica. The Carib Indians were the tribe that occupied this land, but instead of fighting the Europeans the Caribs welcomed them with open arms.
According to archeologists there is evidence that shows there was civilization in Costa Rica for about 10,000 years before Columbus. These peoples were the Carib that lived on the east coast and the Borucas, Chibchas, and Diquis that occupied the southwest. Under the Spanish rule the native