The consolidation of the liberal state and meteorological research in Costa Rica (1887-1904)
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| Formato: | artículo original |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2020 |
| Descripción: | Abstract: In the Costa Rica of the late nineteenth century, a process of institutionalization of Meteorology as a science is developed due to the presence of an active scientific community and of a national State that has been consolidating under liberalism. This interest in meteorology is associated with the relevance of acquiring knowledge about atmospheric phenomena and climatic conditions within a territory whose economy is based on a capitalist agro-export model. Thereby, a Meteorological Observatory was founded in the city of San Jose in 1887, an entity that centralizes the meteorological observations produced in the country. That work will be continued by the National Meteorological Institute and the National Physical-Geographic Institute in the following years, institutions that were led by the Swiss naturalist Henri Pittier until his resignation in 1904. The Meteorological Section of the Physical-Geographic Institute achieved the establishment of a meteorological information network owing to the support of the United Fruit Company, with the installation of several rainfall stations in the banana enclave of the Caribbean region of Costa Rica. |
| País: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institución: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Lenguaje: | Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/40913 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/estudios/article/view/40913 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Costa Rica, history, science, meteorology, climate. Costa Rica, historia, ciencia, meteorología, clima. |