For an excellent overview of Costa Rican history, visit http://www.photo.net/cr/moon/history.

For all the statistical information you could want about today's Costa Rica, see the CIA Factbook: http://www.cia.gov/cia/ publications/factbook/geos/cs.html.

For up-to-the-minute news on Costa Rica, read the Costa Rican English-language newspaper, The Tico Times: http://www.tico times.net/.

A SOCORICO member who is also a source for Costa Rica classics, proofs, errors, rarities, blocks, and postal history is Giana Wayman who can be reached at scotland@racsa.co.cr.

The Costa Rica Revenue and Postage Society is an organization dedicated to Costa Rican philately. It is in Spanish.