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Embassy_of_Costa_Rica_in_Washington,_D.C. Latitude and Longitude:
38°54′49″N 77°02′52″W / 38.91361°N 77.04778°W / 38.91361; -77.04778
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Embassy of Costa Rica in Washington, D.C.
Embassy of Costa Rica in 2022
Location Washington, DC, United States
Address2114 S Street, N.W.
Coordinates 38°54′49″N 77°02′52″W / 38.91361°N 77.04778°W / 38.91361; -77.04778
Ambassador Catalina Crespo Sancho
Stone sphere at the Embassy

The Embassy of Costa Rica in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of Costa Rica to the United States. It is located at 2114 S Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. in the Kalorama neighborhood. [1]

The embassy also operates Consulates-General in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami and New York City. [2]

The ambassador is Catalina Crespo Sancho. [3]

In 1974, the Embassy received one of the three pre-Columbian stone spheres of Costa Rica that came to the United States as part of an agreement that had been negotiated in 1971 between American art specialist Samuel Adams Green and the Museo Nacional de Costa Rica together with the Costa Rican Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture. [4] The two larger spheres went to Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, where they were displayed in 1976 [5] together with other monumental sculptures, before going into storage [6] at the warehouses of the Fairmont Park Association. [7] The one in Washington D.C. is displayed in the streetside yard of the Embassy building, as a symbol of national identity.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Embassy of Costa Rica". Embassy.org. Retrieved 2022-05-08.
  2. ^ Consulates of Costa Rica in the United States
  3. ^ Embassy of Costa Rica in Washington, D.C.
  4. ^ Ifigenia Quintanilla (1 July 2012). "De extraños personajes y sus historias: Sam Green y las esferas de piedra". Esferas de piedra y arqueología del Diquís.
  5. ^ "Spheres (300 – 1525)". Association for Public Art.
  6. ^ Don Barker (7 June 2012). "Philadelphia's Phantom Sculpture Garden". MarylandGIS.
  7. ^ "The Stone Spheres of Diquí: An Ancient Mistery Revealed?". The Costa Rica News. 12 July 2019.

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