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75 Bull. Pan Am. Union 225 (1941)
Heredia, Costa Rica

handle is hein.journals/bulpnamu75 and id is 269 raw text is: Heredia, Costa Rica Friendly Impressions of a Visitor from the United States ESTHER ALLEN GAW Dean of Women, Ohio State University WHEN I WRITE about Heredia in Costa Rica, it is as if I were to write about Ohio, in the United States. Of course, the scale is much smaller, since Costa Rica is smaller than Ohio. We might think of Heredia as one of the counties in Costa Rica, but it is called a province rather than a county. I must also warn my readers that when I write about one section of even such a small republic, the descriptions do not necessarily fit all the other portions of the country. Heredia is an inland province in the north central portion of Costa Rica. It is bounded mostly by rivers: on the north by the San Juan, the outlet of Lake Nic- aragua and the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua; on the east by the Chirrip6, an affluent of the San Juan; and on the south by the Virilla, which runs east and west between the province of Heredia and San Jos6. The western boundary does not follow a river but is a straight line. In a recent visit to Costa Rica I was fortunate in staying with friends who are teachers. My introduction to these friends is one of the felicitous outcomes of fellow- ships in the United States, because I first met one of these teachers, Sefiorita Emma Gamboa, while she held for three years the scholarship of the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs. When she had completed her studies, a friend and I returned with her to Costa Rica in May 1940 for a brief visit. We reached San Jose, the national capital, and then Heredia, capital of the province of the same name, from Puerto Lim6n, a banana-shipping port. The journey on the railroad up the tropical Rio Reventaz6n was interesting. We started from dense jungle forest with great ferns, palm trees, and swamps, climbing higher and higher on the mountain slopes, which are partially cultivated with ba- nanas and other tropical plants. When we reached the plateau (meseta) we found a continuous succession of plantations of coffee trees under shade, often supplied by bananas. In the many parks and open spaces are varieties of palm, the Arau- carian pine, large mangos, the pandanus and other ornamental tropical shrubs, and various large handsome native trees (fre- quently with glossy leaves), whose names I could not learn. Strung across the plateau, from east to west, are the principal towns of Costa Rica, namely, Cartago, San Jos6, Heredia, Alajuela, and San Ram6n. All of these except San Ram6n are on the railroad connecting the Atlantic and Pacific shores. San Jos6 has some of the aspects of a city in the United States, with shops, banks, caf6s, a national theater, parks, many schools, and streets crowded with people most of the time. Outside the city there 225 Digitized from Best Copy Available

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