1. Give your liver credit for being one of the hardest-working organs in your body, as it performs hundreds of functions. âI call it the Grand Central station of your body,â Dr. Decker says. In a nutshell, your liver processes anything you eat or drink, and either repackages it for your body to use or eliminates it.f youâre a healthy person, you might not think twice about your liver â and for good reason. âIf youâre healthy, youâre probably not even aware of what your liverâs doing,â says G. Anton Decker, MD, chief medical officer of Banner Medical Group and gastroenterologist in Phoenix.
Costa Rica is relatively small - 19,700 square miles (51,100 sq. km), ranking it 129th in worldwide landmass. Costa Rica's size is commonly compared to the state of West Virgina (24,231 sq. mi., 62,758 sq. km) and the European state of Denmark (16,629 sq. mi., 43,069 sq. km).
It borders both the Caribbean Sea (to the east) and the North Pacific Ocean (to the west), with a total of 1,290 km of coastline (212 km on the Caribbean coast and 1,016 km on the Pacific).Costa Rica shares a border with Nicaragua to the north (313 km long border) and with Panama to the south (348 km long border).xtent of Costa Rica's western EEZ in the Pacific. The nation's terrain is a coastal plain separated by rugged mountains, the Cordillera Central and the Cordillera de Talamanca, which form the spine of the country and separate the Pacific and Caribbean watersheds.