Costa Rica

Why Costa Rica?

  • Affordable medical treatments and cost savings
  • Skilled surgeons (leading doctors and surgeons in Costa Rica hospitals to have gained experience, certifications or trainings from the USA, Canada or Europe)
  • State-of-the-art medical facilities
  • Eco-tourism paradise
  • Easily accessible from US and Canada
  • No jet-lag disorders
  • 3 hours from Miami International Airport
  • More than 15 daily flights from US
  • No visa required (only a valid passport)
  • No waiting time for appointments
  • Ticos, as the friendly, warmhearted Costa Ricans are known, pride themselves on having more teachers than policemen
  • Top private accredited hospitals and clinics in Costa Rica
  • Excellent health care system which is ranked by the World Health Organization even higher than the US
  • The World Health Organization ranked Costa Rica's health system as one of the top three Latin America countries
  • Language is no barrier as hospital staff can usually speak English
  • Warm and hospitable welcome
  • Costa Rica is the sixth-happiest country in the world, and the happiest country in the Americas
  • In the year 1949 the armed forces were abolished and in 1983 a Perpetual Neutrality was proclaimed.
  • Political Stability
  • No climate can, I imagine, be more favorable to fertility and to man's comfort at the same time than that of the interior of Costa Rica. Anthony Trollope.
  • Costa Rica is one of the oldest, most stable and pacific democracies in Latin America
  • Demonstrating an environmental sensitivity unparalleled elsewhere, Costa Ricans have set aside one quarter of their land as protected areas and national parks.
  • Costa Rica has, for its size, more species than any other terrestrial habitat in the world.

About Costa Rica

Costa Rica is a country located in Central America that has unlimited tourist potential and is ranked as one of the most visited international destinations. One of Costa Rica's main sources of income is tourism. Costa Rica is a democratic and peaceful country, and it has not had an army since the year 1949.

Although the country is small and it covers only 0.03 % of the surface of the globe, it proudly shelters a 6% of the existing biodiversity in the entire world. 25.58 % of the country is composed of conservation and natural protected territory.

Costa Rica is also an attractive country for investment and it offers great potential for the establishment of important multinational companies, thanks to the outstanding academic level of its population, as well as the high standard of modern services and social and political stability.

Knowing Costa Rica

Costa Rica extends majestically from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea, and its distance is barely 200 miles. Its land portion occupies only 20 thousand square miles.

If you travel throughout the provinces of Costa Rica, it's easy to notice that in no other place you shall find fields with so many variations in their landscape and climate as here.

Costa Rica is one of most highly valued tourist destinations in this planet. This small piece of land includes all of the necessary components to satisfy the taste of thousands of travelers visiting each year.

Costa Rica's territorial division includes 7 provinces, which are: San José, Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia, Guanacaste, Puntarenas, and Limón. Together they offer an attractive tourist destination, of almost limitless possibilities, that include extensive rainforests, volcanoes, rivers traveling through the mountains, beaches and natural resources safeguarded by an important organization of national parks and forest reserves.