IELTS Testing Centres in Costa Rica
In total, there is one test location in Costa Rica that offer IELTS exams. You can select the one which is closer to you.
There are two types of test format available for IELTS exams: paper-based or computer-delivered. For both formats, the Speaking Section is done with a real IELTS examiner on a face-to-face basis.
San José Province, San José, Costa Rica
British Council – BritEd
Street Address: Colegio Británico, Del final del Boulevard de Rohmoser 125 metros norte. Urbanización Santa Catalina
Telephone Number: 506 2220 0131
Contact Email: ielts@bscr.ed.cr
Website URL: http://www.britedcostarica.com
List of cities in Costa Rica where you can take the IELTS tests
- San Jose
More about Costa Rica
Business
Costa Rica is a Latin American developing country, whose formerly purely agricultural economic structure is gradually changing through the establishment of free trade zones (branches of high-tech companies) and the expansion of tourism. Due to the political stability and the high level of education, the country is attractive for foreign investors. The gross national income (GNI) per resident is (2018) US $ 11,520. The gross domestic product (GDP) is created to 69.4% in services, 25.0% in industry and the construction sector and 5.6% in the agricultural sector.
Foreign trade: The trade balance is chronically in deficit (import value 2015: 15.2 billion US $, export value: 9.2 billion US $). The most important export goods are microprocessors, medical equipment and agricultural goods (traditionally bananas and coffee, increasingly sugar and beef). The main imports are crude oil, among others. Raw materials, capital goods and consumer goods. The main trading partners are the USA; in addition, other Central American states, Mexico and China play an essential role.
Agriculture
Agriculture, which employs 11% of the workforce, is still an important sector of the economy as it produces important export products. Costa Rica is one of the largest producers of coffee and bananas in the world. Bananas are mainly grown by large farms on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, while coffee is produced by small and medium-sized family businesses and individual large companies in the central highlands. Livestock is mainly practiced in the northwestern lowlands in the Guanacaste province. In the mountain regions there are numerous small businesses that cultivate vegetables intensively, mostly for self-sufficiency and local market production; they grow rice, corn, beans and potatoes. Cocoa is grown in the tropical lowlands on the Caribbean coast, great ones Sugar cane plantations are located in the central highlands and in the northern lowlands.
Forestry: A good half of the land area of Costa Rica is covered with forest. Logging, slash and burn for livestock and arable farming, traffic development and tourist use had strongly pushed back the valuable stocks of mahogany, ebony, rosewood and cedar. Therefore, since 1979 reforestation has been subsidized by the state and more areas have been placed under protection so that the forest stands can recover.
Fisheries: Despite the abundance of fish, deep-sea fishing plays a subordinate role. The small fishing sector catches around 35,500 tonnes (2018), of which 3,250 tonnes are crustaceans.
Industry
Costa Rica has created several free trade zones in which foreign high-tech companies, textile factories and chemical and electronic industries have settled. The local industry focuses on the production of food. The main location is the area around San José. There is an oil refinery in Limón, Caribbean, which processes imported oil.
Tourism
The most important source of foreign exchange is tourism. With volcanoes, rainforest, wide sandy beaches on the Pacific and 26 national parks (over 11% of the country’s area) as well as other protected areas, Costa Rica offers favorable conditions for ecological tourism. A good infrastructure and efforts in nature conservation caused the number of foreign tourists to increase sevenfold between 1990 and 2019 to over 3 million overnight guests and 240,000 cruise passengers. Foreign exchange income increased fourteen times.
Natural resources
The country has few raw materials. The mining of the bauxite deposits will begin. In addition to gold and silver ore, Extracted from sea salt (coast of Nicoya).
Energy industry
73.1% of electricity is generated in hydropower plants, 13.1% from geothermal energy and 4.2% from wind power. For oil and natural gas, which only account for 9.6% of electricity generation, Costa Rica is completely dependent on imports.
Transportation
The transport network is well developed in the central highlands, but little developed on the Caribbean coast and in the south. The main mode of transport is the road (a total of 39,000 km, around a quarter of which is paved). The most important connection is the Carretera Interamericana (Panamerican Highway), which crosses Costa Rica from La Cruz in the northwest on the border with Nicaragua via the capital to Neily in the southeast on the border with Panama. The Puntarenas – San José – Limón road, which connects the Caribbean with the Pacific coast, is also important. The most important sea ports are Puntarenas (port on the Pacific Ocean), Limón (port on the Caribbean Sea) and Caldera. The main cities in the country are connected by airlines. Costa Rica has around 47 airports, including Juan Santamaria International Airport near San José.