How different it must have looked when Columbus arrived here in 1502. Bountiful forests, remarkably diverse animal life, almost 400,000 indigenous peoples -- how different. Only 20 years after he first "sailed the ocean blue," Columbus discovered this paraiso. By 1569 when the last of the origional indigenous population was officially undermined, the country had already changed. Colonists, encomiendas, the Catholic Church -- the Spainsh brought more than disease and language to Costa Rica.
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