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Costa Rica: Unconventional Names for Towns and Villages

Written byJuliana Rincón Parra

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Posted 9 December 2008 20:44 GMT

In Costa Rica, La Foto Salió Movida [es] searched the electoral lists and discovered truly strange names of townships and villages in the country, and publishes them on his blog. Some of the names, translated into english includes Loser, Ice Cream or Liberty, Beer, Betterthannothing, Cheap Houses, Sewers, Socks, The Smurfs, and Ashtray.

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Written byJuliana Rincón Parra

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