Costa Rica, Central America (Google Maps ⧉, OpenStreetMap ⧉)

"… the rather unusual petition of the vice consul of Costa Rica was heard behind closed doors."

"… many of the principal figures in the 'InGen incident' are not signatories, and were willing to discuss the remarkable events leading up to those final two days in August 1989 on a remote island off the west coast of Costa Rica."

"I am sure this lizard was a Basiliscus amoratus, a striped basilisk lizard, found here in Costa Rica and also in Honduras."

"Costa Ricans said that when a bird came to visit a newborn child, it brought good luck."

"This is a lizard," Stone said. "From Costa Rica. Some girl down there drew a picture of it."

"“Wonderful, wonderful. Children are such a delight. She'd get a kick out of our new park in Costa Rica.”"

"The pilot announced four hours' flying time to Dallas, where they would refuel, and then go on to Costa Rica, arriving the following morning."

"Meanwhile, there is a second piece of evidence. Costa Rica has an excellent medical service, and it tracks all kinds of data."

"Costa Rica," Hammond said, "has better population control than other countries in Central America. But, even so, the land is badly deforested. Most of this is within the last ten years."

"Face the damn facts, Henry," Hammond said irritably. "This isn't America. This isn't even Costa Rica. This is my island. I own it."

"To tell the truth, the choice of this island off Costa Rica had also been unwise."

"But the plain fact was that many people had died in a territorial possession of Costa Rica. The government of Costa Rica felt it had been misled and deceived by John Hammond and his plans for the island."

"These groups have misleading names, like the International Wildlife Preservation Fund—that’s an Omaha-based direct-mail organization, that in turn outsources the work to Costa Rica."

"Only seventy‐five miles wide at its narrowest point, the country was smaller than the state of Maine. Yet, within its limited space, Costa Rica had a remarkable diversity of biological habitats: seacoasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific; four separate mountain ranges, including twelve‐thousand‐foot peaks and active volcanoes; rain forests, cloud forests, temperate zones, swampy marshes, and arid deserts."