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In Costa Rica Thousands walk to Cartago to visit ‘La Negrita’

Every year, an estimated two million people from across Central America leave their homes and walk to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles in...

Costa Rica Catholics Pilgrimage to Basilica de Los Ángeles

This weekend pilgrims from across Costa Rica will begin walking – if they haven't already – to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles for an annual pilgrimage of faith known as the romería, where they will pay their respects to and ask for favors from the country’s patron saint, the Virgin of Los Ángeles.

Pilgrimage to Cartago: Photos of Costa Rica’s Largest Religious Event

Every year, an estimated 2 million people from across Central America leave their homes and begin walking to the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles in Cartago, east of the capital, to pay their respects to Costa Rica's patron saint, known locally as La Negrita.

Costa Rica’s La Negrita Annual Pilgrimage: Please fix my Peacock

On Friday and Saturday, thousands of Catholics will converge on the Basilica de Nuestra Señora de Los Ángeles in Cartago for Costa Rica's annual pilgrimage, the...

President Solís to sit out annual Costa Rican religious pilgrimage to Cartago

“The subject of my faith as a believer is mine, with my Lord,” President Luis Guillermo Solís said, who never participated in the romería as a citizen and says he won't start now.
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A Costa Rica Coffee Farm and Its Unanswered Question

"A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof" – Feodor Dostoevsky. In the early 1990s, I spent most of a year in a rural area...

Solar Panels Bring Clean Water to Costa Rica’s Nairi Awari Community

In the middle of Costa Rica's jungle, the indigenous Nairi Awari community no longer has to fetch water from the river with buckets. For...

Central American Rattlesnake: Facts, Myths, and Its Role in Costa Rica

Today we meet Costa Rica’s rattlesnake, the Central American rattlesnake. It’s a beautiful serpent complete with potent venom, a unique warning system, and the...