1910 Costa Rica earthquakes
The 1910 Costa Rica earthquakes were a series of destructive seismic events that affected Cartago, Costa Rica from 13 April to 4 May. The sequence began with a Ms 5.8 earthquake. The largest and most destructive in the sequence occurred on 4 May, measuring Ms 6.4. A total of 2,450 people were killed and the city of Cartago was severely affected.
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The Orosi River, also called Rio Grande de Orosi, is a river in Costa Rica near the Cordillera de Talamanca. The watershed contains one of the rainiest areas of Costa Rica, with annual rainfalls of up to 710 centimetres.
The river goes through the Tapantí National Park. Just before Lake Cachi, whose dam was constructed in 1954, it links with the Agua Caliente river to form the Reventazón river.
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Paraíso is a district of the Paraíso canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.
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The Lankester Botanical Gardens are a set of gardens outside of Cartago, Costa Rica. The garden is open to the public, but is operated by the University of Costa Rica as a research center and is a major center for orchid research in both Central America
and the Caribbean.
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Llanos de Santa Lucía formerly known as Santa Lucía is the youngest of the districts of the Paraíso canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. It was established as the fifth district on 21 July 2004.