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Costa Rica has a tropical climate. > Because Costa Rica is located between 8 and 12 degrees north of the Equator, the climate is tropical year round. https://
by theli0nheart 7y ago
Costa Rica has a tropical climate.
> Because Costa Rica is located between 8 and 12 degrees north of the Equator, the climate is tropical year round.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica
- HissingMachine 7y agoAnother wikipedia article states this, which I based my assumption to. >Mild climate and trade winds make neither heating nor cooling necessary, particularly in the highland cities and towns where some 90% of the population lives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Costa_Rica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Costa_Rica
- swebs 7y agoAnd here's a final wikipedia article that probably explains why he corrected you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate_climate
- HissingMachine 7y agoFair enough should probably have used the mild climate term used in the wikipedia article to avoid confusing to climate zones.
- benologist 7y agoIn the capital San Jose it has about a mile's altitude and is in a valley ringed by mountains. In the capital every day is pretty much 70 - 80s F / 20s C and a little colder in the mountains, the coastlines are at sea level and quite hot.
- asdff 7y ago>the coastlines are at sea level You don't say!
- yellowapple 7y agoAt least in the political/socioeconomic sense (though perhaps not in the literal sense of "the point where water meets land"), lots of what we consider to be a "coastline" is actually well above sea level (for example: sea cliffs).