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Costa Rica Pic of the Day: Whitewater Rafting in Limón

Topics focused on improving safety in adventure sports and managing environmental risks inherent in whitewater rafting. 

Savegre River rafting: You can trust your guide (to dunk you)

Whitewater rafting on Costa Rica's Savegre River is just as thrilling and scenic as on the better-known Pacuare. But watch out for your guide.

Costa Rica White Water Rafting on The Savegre River

Whitewater rafting on Costa Rica's Savegre River is just as thrilling and scenic as on the better-known Pacuare. But watch out for your guide.

After rafting the Pacuare, President Solís bans hydroelectric dams

President Luis Guillermo Solís went whitewater rafting Saturday on the Pacuare River, then signed a decree that bans hydroelectric dams here and on the Savegre River for 25 years.

Costa Rica’s Solís goes rafting, then bans dams from the Pacuare and Savegre rivers

After a morning of whitewater rafting with his family, President Luis Guillermo Solís signed a decree banning dams from the Pacuare and Savegre rivers for 25 years, then thrust the document into the air and said, “For Costa Rica!”

Dam the Pacuare? Over Turrialba’s dead body

Whitewater rafters, indigenous people and other advocates of the world-famous Pacuare River say it would be a disaster to dam this national treasure to produce electricity. They're currently in talks with the Solís administration to produce a presidential decree preventing the damming of this river for the foreseeable future. But with the Costa Rican Electricity Institute having promised in 2009 to build nothing on the Pacuare for 20 years, how real is the threat?

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