important facts about geography of costa rica
It borders both the Caribbean Sea (to the east) and the North Pacific Ocean (to the west), with a total of 1,290 km of coastline (212 km on the Caribbean coast and 1,016 km on the Pacific).Costa Rica shares a border with Nicaragua to the north (313 km long border) and with Panama to the south (348 km long border).xtent of Costa Rica's western EEZ in the Pacific. The nation's terrain is a coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.