1.7K
Visitors to Costa Rica
Did you ever wonder where most of the visitors that travel to Costa Rica come from. It might not surprise anybody that almost half of the tourists that enter Costa Rica do so from the United States. In 2011 there were 1,081,746 visitors from the United States. The amount of Canadian visitors has been growing year after year and in 2011 we had 166,685 Canadians visit Costa Rica.
COSTA RICA
Immigration Entries to Costa Rica from Specified Countries
Period of 2010 to 2011
Source: Costa Rica Department of Immigration
| COUNTRY | 2010 | 2011 | |
| GERMANY | 64.421 | 65.019 | |
| ARGENTINA | 21.302 | 21.314 | |
| CANADA | 157.326 | 166.685 | |
| COLOMBIA | 33.554 | 37.268 | |
| CHILE | 8.997 | 9.407 | |
| ECUADOR | 5.186 | 6.294 | |
| EL SALVADOR | 54.501 | 53.928 | |
| SPAIN | 47.401 | 50.266 | |
| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 1.012.353 | 1.081.746 | |
| FRANCE | 38.312 | 38.972 | |
| GUATEMALA | 48.817 | 50.049 | |
| HONDURAS | 33.950 | 36.427 | |
| ITALY | 20.374 | 20.683 | |
| MÉXICO | 56.491 | 62.662 | |
| NICARAGUA | 427.392 | 407.030 | |
| THE NETHERLANDS | 29.863 | 30.050 | |
| PANAMÁ | 85.172 | 79.511 | |
| PERÚ | 9.635 | 10.939 | |
| UNITED KINGDOM | 58.648 | 55.538 | |
| SWITZERLAND | 15.882 | 15.888 | |
| VENEZUELA | 25.448 | 26.087 | |
| TOTAL | 2.255.025 | 2.325.763 | |
