Official language: Spanish
Population: 4,133,884
Currency: Costa Rican Colon (CRC)

Current Exchange Rate
1 EUR = 838.0843 CRC
1 GBP = 927.6908 CRC
1 USD = 566.7710 CRC

Casinos in Costa Rica
Casino gambling in Costa Rica has been around for decades. Today, there are more than 30 large casinos in the country, mostly concentrated around the city of San Jose. For many years, vague and poorly regulated gambling laws in the country let Costa Rican casinos operate as they wished. Recently, however, the government has begun to tighten these regulations, and new laws are restricting the scope of casino gambling in the country. Today, casinos can only operate when associated with a large hotel, which discourages locals from using them. In fact, most of Costa Rica's casino gambling revenue comes from foreign tourists.

Online Casinos in Costa Rica
Online gambling has been legal in Costa Rica almost as long as the internet has been around. Vague laws in the early 1990s meant the country was host to some of the first internet casinos in the world. Today, there are hundreds of legal online casinos operating out of Costa Rica. Interestingly, the local laws insist that Costa Rican gambling websites can only cater to foreign players, and that Costa Ricans cannot place bets with them. Local players looking for online casino games must use overseas casinos. The local government seems fine with this, and since there are lots of foreign internet casinos that accept players from Costa Rica, finding a place to play online casino games is never difficult.