Rivas

Rivas, Costa Rica, a mountain district in the upper reaches of Pérez Zeledón canton, is one of the most quietly extraordinary places to live in the country — a collection of small, steep-valleyed Tico villages clinging to the foothills of Cerro Chirripó, Costa Rica's highest peak, where the air is cool and clean, rivers run through every property, quetzals are spotted from kitchen windows, and a small but intensifying community of foreign residents has found what can fairly be described as the most spectacular undiscovered mountain living in Central America.

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