home to Costa Rica’s Indigenous Boruca people. The tribe is believed to have a few thousand members, and is one of eight Indigenous groups in the country. The dance has been used for hundreds of ...

In Costa Rica, we have eight indigenous groups dividing in 24 territories. That represents 1.7% of the national population. -Wow. -Actually we have between 63,000 to 70,000 indigenous people in ...

The brightly coloured balsa-wood masks are ubiquitous in the country, and of enormous significance to the indigenous people of Boruca The morning mist is yet to disperse in the Costa Rican village ...

and the Boruca indigenous people (the little devils). Since 2017, this activity is Intangible Cultural Heritage of Costa Rica, according to the Ministry of Culture.“This practice is one of the ...

Nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, Costa Rica is often hailed as a paradise on Earth. Its lush ...

Not traditional bullfights (these had long been forbidden in Costa Rica), but extemporaneous fights that pitted the rangy, long-horned bull against the people in, the ancient Iberian fashion ...

Indigenous peoples' nutrition transition in a right to food perspective ... Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Census, Costa Rica. IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature). 2013.

For her Masters, she examined people’s access to wild foods in two Costa Rican national parks. For her Ph.D., she collaborated with an Indigenous rights organization (Centro Skõki) to develop a ...