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U.S. Embassy closed on Columbus Holiday




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Published on Monday, October 14, 2024

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff



The United States Embassy and Consular Section are closed on Monday to commemorate Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) Day.


The diplomatic headquarters, located in Pavas Canton in San José, will reopen on Tuesday, with normal office hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.


The United States celebrates Columbus Day on the second Monday of October. It commemorates the anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas on October 12, 1492.


President Franklin Delano Roosevelt designated Columbus Day a national holiday in 1937. Since 1971, Columbus Day has been recognized as a federal government holiday on the second Monday in October. All federal offices are closed in observance of the day.


However, Alaska, Alabama, Hawaii, Vermont, New Mexico, South Dakota, Maine, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Oregon, among others, do not commemorate this occasion as "Columbus Day" and instead observe Indigenous Peoples Day.





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According to historical records, Portuguese explorers began traveling south down the West African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa around 1420, delivering land resources such as gold, spices, and other items from Africa and Asia to Europe. Instead of traveling around the vast continent of Africa as the Portuguese did, Christopher Columbus, born in Genoa, Italy, believed he might find a more direct path by heading west.


The Italian explorer,   traveled across the Atlantic Ocean seeking for a speedier path to the Far East and accidentally arrived in the New World.


Thinking he had reached Asia on October 12, 1492, Columbus landed on an island present-day Bahamas. Continuing the voyage, he spotted the current territory of Cuba, assuming it was China. For the next few months, Columbus sailed and explored the Caribbean islands in search of riches to bring back to Spain.


Columbus arrived on what is now Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast on September 25, 1502, on his fourth and last journey. In his dispatches known as "the Jamaica Letters," he referred to the region as "Veragua." He collected handcrafted gold presents from the local natives, spreading the belief that this region was a wealthy coast, giving rise to the country's current name, Costa Rica.



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