305 U8 wk 17 country fact JOANNE

Central America 中美洲 It includes 包含 7 countries: Belize 貝里斯, Costa Rica 哥斯大黎加, El Salvador 薩爾瓦多, Guatemala 瓜地馬拉, Honduras 宏都拉斯, Nicaragua 尼加拉瓜, and Panama 巴拿馬.

Belize Official language: English Gained 獲得 independence 獨立 from the United Kingdom 大英聯合王國 on 21 September 1981

Costa Rica The largest and the capital city: San Jose Official language: Spanish The name of the country means Rich Coast in Spanish

El Salvador Is the smallest and the most densely 密集地 populated 居住於 country in Central America Official language: Castilian 卡斯提爾語 ; 純正 西班牙語

Guatemala The largest and the capital city is Guatemala City. Official language: Spanish It has many volcanoes 火山, and the country’s location 位置 has many hurricanes 颶風.

Honduras Official language: Spanish This country also has hurricanes frequently 頻 繁地.

Nicaragua The largest and the capital city is Managua. Official language: Spanish

Panama The largest and the capital city is Panama City Official language: Spanish

Costa Rica 哥斯大黎加 is the one of the most visited 拜訪 country in Central America. So today we’re going to learn about this country.

Fun facts It has a life expectancy 平均壽命 of almost 77 years, one of the highest in the world.

There are more than 121 volcanic 火山 ( 性 ) 的 formations 構成 in Costa Rica, and seven of them are active 活躍的. Poas Volcano has the second widest crater 火山口 in the world (nearly one mile 英里 = km) in diameter 直徑, and Arenal Volcano is one of the ten most active volcanoes in the world.

More than 25% of Costa Rica’s land is dedicated 專用的 to national parks 國家公園, reserves 保 護區 and wildlife 野生生物 refuges 庇護. There are more than 100 different protected 受保護的 areas 地區 to visit.

Costa Ricans refer to 把... 歸屬 ( 於 ) themselves as Ticos (males 男子 ) or Ticas (females 女人 ). The use 使用 of Ticos and Ticas are only used as males and females in Costa Rica.

Cost Ricans speak Spanish, and English is most of people’s second language because there are many tourists 觀光者. For people who can speak two languages they are bilingual 雙語的.

Costa Rica has more than 5% of the world’s biodiversity 生物多樣性 even though its landmass 大陸 only takes up.03% of the planet‘s 行星的 surface 表面.

it has more than130 species of freshwater 淡 水的 fish

more than 160 species of amphibians 兩棲動 物

More than 208 species 種類 of mammals 哺乳 動物

more than 220 species of reptiles 爬行動物

More than 850 species of birds

More than 1,000 species of butterflies

More than 1,200 varieties 種類 of orchids 蘭 花

More than 9,000 species of plants

more than 34,000 species of insects