Costa Rica's Currency Is Named After Christopher Columbus

The law was passed to protect wildlife, in line with the country's conservation focus.

It is now quiet, but the conical volcano remains one of Costa Rica's best-known landmarks.

Forest cover fell to roughly a quarter of the country in the 1980s and has since recovered to more than half.

Despite covering only a tiny fraction of the planet's land, its rainforests, cloud forests and coasts host extraordinary biodiversity.