Susan Atkinson, from the Pacific Edge Eco Lodge, took three Boruca ladies to Guatemala to meet their homologues.  From Guatemala City, they traveled to Chichicastenango, where every Thursday morning the largest native market in Central […]

The murex snail provides a milky fluid that all Indian women, from the Boruca community in the Brunca Region in the South Pacific of Costa Rica use in the dyeing of their cotton yarn in […]

It is noteworthy that both ticos and the foreign community know very little about the indigenous population of our country. Did you know that the first settlers arrived here between 10,000 and 7,000 years before […]

Susan, owner of the Pacific Edge Ecolodge in Dominicalito, has been working with the Boruca community for nearly 17 years, mainly with Marina Lazaro, selling her masks and all the beautifully hand-woven goods, they make.  […]