Events in the year 2025 in Costa Rica.
Incumbents President: Rodrigo Chaves Robles First Vice President: Stephan Brunner Second Vice President: Mary Munive
Art and entertainment
List of Costa Rican submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
Events February 21 February – The United States deports 135 migrants to Costa Rica.
March 1 March – The Falkland Islands Cricket Team tours the country after 14 years. 31 March – The Poás Volcano erupts and sends ash plumes 1,000 m high.
June 19 June – Exiled Nicaraguan opposition figure Roberto Samcam is shot dead at his residence in San Jose.
July 20 July – American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies in a drowning accident in Playa Cocles, Limón Province. 31 July – Vice president Stephan Brunner and six ministers resign from the cabinet of president Chaves amid efforts by the ruling Social Democratic Progress Party to obtain a majority in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica for the 2026 Costa Rican general election.
September 12 September – Police arrest four suspects in the June killing of exiled Nicaraguan politician Roberto Samcam in San José. 22 September – A motion in the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica to remove Rodrigo Chaves' presidential immunity amid corruption allegations against him fails after coming short of obtaining a supermajority. 24 September – All flights to and from Costa Rica are suspended after the radar system of Juan Santamaría International Airport suffers a systems failure. 27 September – A Mexican national is seriously injured in a shark attack off the coast of Cocos Island.
October 8 October – President Chaves nominates former vice president Rebeca Grynspan to become the next Secretary-General of the United Nations upon the end of António Guterres' tenure in 2026. 15 October – President Chaves restricts the practice of abortion in Costa Rica to situations when the mother’s life is in danger.
December 17 December – The Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica rejects a request by the Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica to lift president Chaves' immunity from prosecution as part of an investigation into alleged electoral interference.
Holidays
1 January – New Year's Day 11 April – Juan Santamaría 17 April – Maundy Thursday 18 April – Good Friday 1 May – Labour Day 25 July – Guanacaste Day 2 August – Lady of the Angels Day 15 August – Assumption Day, Mother's Day 31 August – Day of the Black Person and Afro-Costa Rican Culture 15 September – Independence Day 1 December – Army Abolition Day 25 December – Christmas Day
Deaths
20 June – Marita Camacho Quirós, 114, first lady (1962–1966). 9 July – Brunhilda de Portilla, 96, educator and composer. 17 August – José Ricardo Carballo, 42, presenter, journalist and writer. 25 September – Karen Olsen Beck, 95, diplomat, first lady (1954–1958, 1970–1974), and MLA (1986–1990).
References
External links Online calendar