San Carlos River Basin, northeastern Costa Rica
The San Carlos river basin is located in the center of the province of Alajuela, located in the northeast of Costa Rica (Figure 1), between the geographical coordinates 10°30"00 northern latitude and 84°30"00 western longitude. The San Carlos has a total area of 2620 km2 until its confluence with the San Juan River, at the border with Nicaragua in the north of the country. The San Carlos basin can be considered an experimental site of the Observatory of Water and Global Change (OAGC) of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) since 2013.
Figure 1. Location of the San Carlos river basin in Costa Rica and the Central American region together with cities, the stream network and protected areas.
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Scholarships available for MSc Program in Integrated Water Resources Management for Latin America and the Caribbean (IWRM-LAC), San José, Costa Rica
The University of Costa Rica (UCR), School of Geography, offers a new MSc Program in Integrated Water Resources Management focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. The 6th generation will start in August 2026 and is looking for students from all LAC countries and Germany.
The MSc Program takes place at the UCR. It belongs to the DAAD-funded project "Integrated Water Resources Management for Latin America and the Caribbean – IWRM LAC" in the "Transnational Education - Degree Programs offered abroad by German Institutions" program. The project coordinator is the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT), TH Köln, Germany.
The time to completion for the degree is four semesters. The internationally oriented MSc Program allows students from Latin America and the Caribbean to start their studies in San José and spend an exchange semester at ITT, TH Cologne, Germany. Classes in Costa Rica are taught in Spanish and English. The teaching language at the ITT is English. The curriculum of the MSc Program IWRM-LAC follows the structure of the MSc Program: "Integrated Water Resources Management" offered at ITT, TH Köln (LINK).
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