Costa Rica is the safest place in Cental America!!

In 2009 Costa Rica had the lowest homicide rate in all Central America!
http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/nacionales/70952

In 2009
• El Salvador had a homicide rate of 76 per 100,000 inhabitants
• Honduras had a homicide rate of 66.8 per 100,000
• Guatemala had a homicide rate of 48 per 100,000
• Panama had a homicide rate of 24 per 100,000
• Nicaragua had a homicide rate of 13 per 100,000
• Costa Rica had a homicide rate of 11 per 100,000

Check out how may were U.S. citizens according to the Deaths of U.S. Citizens Abroad statistics compiled by the US Department of State. http://travel.state.gov/law/family_issues/death/death_600.html

All the more reason to come to Costa Rica to go fishing, surfing, vacation or buy Real Estate!

Pura Vida!!