The veteran swimmer had hoped to complete the treacherous 160-kilometer (100-mile) trek in 80 hours. But in the end, she did it in 52 hours, 54 minutes and 18.6 seconds.
Puntarenas, on Costa Rica’s central Pacific, is the province most affected by climate change, with damages in the six-year period reaching $164.5 million.
The turquoise tones of Río Celeste (Spanish for "Blue River") – one of Costa Rica’s most prominent natural jewels – "is mostly an optical phenomenon, not a chemical effect in the water," a research team formed by experts from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and the National University (UNA) reported this week.
Nobel Peace Prize winning former President Oscar Arias said that a military response to a suspected chemical attack last week would cost hundreds of thousands of "innocent" lives.
The mission's preliminary findings criticized the martial behavior of law enforcement towards indigenous peoples and the need to pass pending legislation for autonomous communities.
Costa Rica's Judicial Investigation Police arrest two people suspected of defrauding at least nine patients by handing out fake diagnoses and homeopathic prescriptions.
The Costa Rican Judicial Investigation Police said they made data requests to Facebook as part of investigations into identity theft, threats and soliciting sex from a minor, among other crimes.
