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 (IWRM-LAC) focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. The 6th cohort will begin in August 2026 and is open to students from all countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as Germany.
The MSc Program is based at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) in San José. It is part of the DAAD-funded project “Integrated Water Resources Management for Latin America and the Caribbean, IWRM-LAC”, within the framework of “Transnational Education, Degree Programs Offered Abroad by German Institutions.”
The project is coordinated by TH Köln (University of Applied Sciences) through the Faculty of Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems, formerly known as the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT).
The MSc Program has a standard duration of four semesters. It is internationally oriented and enables students from Latin America and the Caribbean to begin their studies in San José, Costa Rica, and complete an exchange semester at TH Köln, Germany. Courses in Costa Rica are taught in Spanish and English, while instruction in Germany is conducted entirely in English.
The curriculum of the MSc Program IWRM-LAC is aligned with the academic structure and content of the MSc Program “Integrated Water Resources Management” offered at TH Köln (LINK).
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