Includes an excellent terrain & transport map for Costa Rica, the Central American nation of 20,000 square miles and 5 million people, noted for the high level of human development for a country in the Global South and a popular tourist & retirement destination for North Americans (from International Travel Maps/ITMB Publishing, 2003); and a colorful foldout brochure for the Monteverde Cloud Forest Lodge, in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, a mountainous area in northwestern Costa Rica, straddling the continental divide, that is noted for the astonishing biodiversity of its virgin forests (including over 400 types of orchids) (from circa 2000).