Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão landed on the southwestern African shores of present day Angola in the late 1400s. The Portuguese economy was primarily based on the slave trade, they sent an astonishing 4,000,000 slaves to Brazil, accounting for 40% of all slaves shipped to the Americas, most of them coming from Angola. Within Angola, the …
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Popular exports from the Osa Peninsula
Bananas One of Costa Rica’s most popular and recognizable exports are bananas. A report from 2015 stated that 2/3rds of the bananas consumed globally were grown in Costa Rica at one of the many plantations that, in total, employ over 100,000 Costa Ricans. Costa Rica’s affinity for bananas come from the perfect mix of tropical …