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"Look at Google's satellite photo and there you can see the border," Pastora told La Nacion (Spanish translation), the largest newspaper in Costa Rica. "In the last 3,000 meters, the two sides (of the river) are Nicaraguan. Then from there to El Castillo, the border is the right riverbank, it's clear."
Apparently Google Maps isn't always right. The official maps used by both the Nicaraguan and Costa Rican governments show the border continuing on the right bank of the San Juan River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. As you can see in the image above, Bing Maps shows the border more accurately. If Pastora is going to ignore the official maps and insists on using an online mapping service, maybe Costa Rica should tell him to just Bing it next time.
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After all, if they just let all those hot sweaty men sit in the woods by themselves for long enough doing nothing, somebody's bound to violate, "don't ask, don't tell"!
I guess my wife was right..."big sweaty mens never stop for directions"
I really hate to play the role of a grammar policemanThen please don't. Leave that to Captaincranky.
to be but may not beWell that's the question.
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google maps: secretly conspiring to kill us all. either one at a time, like the guy who got directed off a cliff, or by starting wars.
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THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE of the peaceful people of Costa Rica.
because they have no army. in any other country that would be*cause for war
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Entonces El General deci, "quitanos de sus juegos eroticos, vamos a machar para Costa Rica"...!
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Poor Costa Rica, a peacefuller nation with no army surrounded by bullies...
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Makes you wonder if any of our own military use Google Maps for navigation regularly...
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I guess my wife was right..."big sweaty mens never stop for directions""Grandes hombes sudados nunca parar a pedir para las direcciones" Si, eso es correcto. Y tambiem, ellos nunca parar abrillando de sus pistolas. Si no lo hechan, estaria mujeres.
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just an observation on the original post: Nicaragua invades Costa Rica due.....
I am afraid that the San Juan River doesn´t go to the gulf of mexico but to the caribean sea
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I find it amusing that Costa Rica blaims this on Google and not their incompetent military.
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And that's why Costa Rica doesn't have an ARMY, it tends to make people stupid xD
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"Grandes hombes sudados nunca parar a pedir para las direcciones" Si, eso es correcto. Y tambiem, ellos nunca parar abrillando de sus pistolas. Si no lo hechan, estaria mujeres.
hombres sudorosos en el bosque en los vestidos, un nuevo realidad mostrar...patrocinado por google
...was i even close?
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just an observation on the original post: Nicaragua invades Costa Rica due.....Well Emil, he's got you on that one. As inaccurate as the maps may be, they clearly show the San Juan River, going to the Caribbean.
I am afraid that the San Juan River doesn´t go to the gulf of mexico but to the caribean sea
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hombres sudorosos en el bosque en los vestidos, un nuevo realidad mostrar...patrocinado por googleY que lo que piensate que los hombres sudorosos han mostrado a los trajabadores de "Google Vista de Calle"?
...was i even close?
Yo lo temo que perdias la bromita, "abrillando de sus pistolas", y mientras cantando, "Y-M-C-A".
There is another issue as yet unaddressed. The article lists the OIC as;
"Former Nicaraguan military commander Eden Pastora"Now here's my question, "was Pastora fired for this, or is this his own army"? -
Bing it, don't bring it.
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It is fail, they should have double checked with another map, or at least have there own maps, They are the military can they not afford basic maps??
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I wonder if countries actually check Google maps for disupted borders.
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what kind of military goes off of an online google map?
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awesome!! internet wins again lol
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Timonius said:
Wow, that truly is scary the power that information can hold on people.
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I wonder what is worst, believing everything you read or military forces using google maps to navigate...
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So here we can see the stupidity in a stupid goverment... Daniel Ortega and company are looking to avoid the attention of their own internal problems, so they try to make problems agains Costa Rica and try to be the "Heroes" for next elections season on 2011... But at the end they are showing how stupid they are... seriously use a google map ????
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This is wrong information. This article contains erroneous information, to try to provoke a negative impression at international level on what is happening in the Nicaraguan San Juan river. Nicaragua Government is conducting a dredging in the San Juan River covered in the judgement of the International Court of Justice (Haya) which gives full and sovereignty over the river and its islands. Costa Ricans only have the right of navigation. Costa Rica border begins on the right bank of the River in navigable State, so the army Nicaragua is located in territory nicaraguense.
If either set the map more closer to reality (Bing's) displays River as the border between the two countries, the nicaraguan army is located on a small island in the san Juan River, so never crossed into territory of Costa Rica.
So there hasen't been such thing as a INVATION.
Side inside bar, facing the lagoon of Harbour Head is landmark, a sort of almost two meters which is discovered in the midst of a coconut palizada concrete Obelisk.
This landmark, the same as the milestone 1 is 300 metres from the sea, were placed decades ago and are confirmation of the dividing line, which according to treaty Jerez - Cañas and paths Cleveland and Alexander Awards century and a half ago, continues along the lagoon of Harbour Head until the first barrel then continues towards the South Bank of the San Juan River.
Provisional army Nicaragua base is 300 meters North of the Obelisk on the sand stretches for two kilometres and joins the drain to the sea of the San Juan River bar.
There remains hoisted the blue and white flag of the country. The lagoon of Harbour Head is a body of Virgin water, surrounded by trees, where some fishermen of San Juan of Nicaragua arrive.
By the southern edge of the Lake, beside the tico, looming palizada coconuts and a few ranches that these days are uninhabited. Along that edge of the lagoon becomes the first pipeline which speaking Awards Cleveland, written by engineer Alexander, century and a half ago, and served to define the border between the two countries.
At that point rises another flag blue and white. Other times, assumes that spout was going to give directly to the San Juan River, and then from there, up to several miles before the Castle, the right side of San Juan in navigable State, mark the border. However, constant silting of decades would have covered much of the spout that now with the dredger is expected to recover to restore the real dividing line.
At the entrance of the spout is Frot trees, the same as the output. He is estimated that approximately 800 metres will be cleaned to restore that spout, according to what you said Edén Pastora, responsible for dredging project.
Cord Frot, trees so far, covers an area of more than fifty meters. That is what Costa Rica has denounced as environmental damage to its territory, however, according to the landmark, Nicaraguan territory. Environmental impact study that allotted the Ministry of natural resources and environment (Marena) said that the effects are minimal.
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This is wrong information. This article contains erroneous information, to try to provoke a negative impression at international level on what is happening in the Nicaraguan San Juan river. Nicaragua Government is conducting a dredging in the San Juan River covered in the judgement of the International Court of Justice (Haya) which gives full and sovereignty over the river and its islands. Costa Ricans only have the right of navigation. Costa Rica border begins on the right bank of the River in navigable State, so the army Nicaragua is located in territory nicaraguense.
If either set the map more closer to reality (Bing's) displays River as the border between the two countries, the nicaraguan army is located on a small island in the san Juan River, so never crossed into territory of Costa Rica.
So there hasen't been such thing as a INVATION.
Side inside bar, facing the lagoon of Harbour Head is landmark, a sort of almost two meters which is discovered in the midst of a coconut palizada concrete Obelisk.
This landmark, the same as the milestone 1 is 300 metres from the sea, were placed decades ago and are confirmation of the dividing line, which according to treaty Jerez - Cañas and paths Cleveland and Alexander Awards century and a half ago, continues along the lagoon of Harbour Head until the first barrel then continues towards the South Bank of the San Juan River.
Provisional army Nicaragua base is 300 meters North of the Obelisk on the sand stretches for two kilometres and joins the drain to the sea of the San Juan River bar.
There remains hoisted the blue and white flag of the country. The lagoon of Harbour Head is a body of Virgin water, surrounded by trees, where some fishermen of San Juan of Nicaragua arrive.
By the southern edge of the Lake, beside the tico, looming palizada coconuts and a few ranches that these days are uninhabited. Along that edge of the lagoon becomes the first pipeline which speaking Awards Cleveland, written by engineer Alexander, century and a half ago, and served to define the border between the two countries.
At that point rises another flag blue and white. Other times, assumes that spout was going to give directly to the San Juan River, and then from there, up to several miles before the Castle, the right side of San Juan in navigable State, mark the border. However, constant silting of decades would have covered much of the spout that now with the dredger is expected to recover to restore the real dividing line.
At the entrance of the spout is Frot trees, the same as the output. He is estimated that approximately 800 metres will be cleaned to restore that spout, according to what you said Edén Pastora, responsible for dredging project.
Cord Frot, trees so far, covers an area of more than fifty meters. That is what Costa Rica has denounced as environmental damage to its territory, however, according to the landmark, Nicaraguan territory. Environmental impact study that allotted the Ministry of natural resources and environment (Marena) said that the effects are minimal.
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Ortega and Pastora didn't consider their own official maps edited by INETER. http://www.ineter.gob.ni/
If you look at the official topo map 3448-1 San Juan del Norte, you will notice that the territory is fully Costa Rican area.
"Pura vida", grettings from Costa Rica!
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Guest said:
This is wrong information. This article contains erroneous information, to try to provoke a negative impression at international level on what is happening in the Nicaraguan San Juan river. Nicaragua Government is conducting a dredging in the San Juan River covered in the judgement of the International Court of Justice (Haya) which gives full and sovereignty over the river and its islands. Costa Ricans only have the right of navigation. Costa Rica border begins on the right bank of the River in navigable State, so the army Nicaragua is located in territory nicaraguense.
If either set the map more closer to reality (Bing's) displays River as the border between the two countries, the nicaraguan army is located on a small island in the san Juan River, so never crossed into territory of Costa Rica.
So there hasen't been such thing as a INVATION.
Side inside bar, facing the lagoon of Harbour Head is landmark, a sort of almost two meters which is discovered in the midst of a coconut palizada concrete Obelisk.
This landmark, the same as the milestone 1 is 300 metres from the sea, were placed decades ago and are confirmation of the dividing line, which according to treaty Jerez - Cañas and paths Cleveland and Alexander Awards century and a half ago, continues along the lagoon of Harbour Head until the first barrel then continues towards the South Bank of the San Juan River.
Provisional army Nicaragua base is 300 meters North of the Obelisk on the sand stretches for two kilometres and joins the drain to the sea of the San Juan River bar.
There remains hoisted the blue and white flag of the country. The lagoon of Harbour Head is a body of Virgin water, surrounded by trees, where some fishermen of San Juan of Nicaragua arrive.
By the southern edge of the Lake, beside the tico, looming palizada coconuts and a few ranches that these days are uninhabited. Along that edge of the lagoon becomes the first pipeline which speaking Awards Cleveland, written by engineer Alexander, century and a half ago, and served to define the border between the two countries.
At that point rises another flag blue and white. Other times, assumes that spout was going to give directly to the San Juan River, and then from there, up to several miles before the Castle, the right side of San Juan in navigable State, mark the border. However, constant silting of decades would have covered much of the spout that now with the dredger is expected to recover to restore the real dividing line.
At the entrance of the spout is Frot trees, the same as the output. He is estimated that approximately 800 metres will be cleaned to restore that spout, according to what you said Edén Pastora, responsible for dredging project.
Cord Frot, trees so far, covers an area of more than fifty meters. That is what Costa Rica has denounced as environmental damage to its territory, however, according to the landmark, Nicaraguan territory. Environmental impact study that allotted the Ministry of natural resources and environment (Marena) said that the effects are minimal.
This sounds like professional political spin to me... Hmmm... Then again, I have never visited either country, much less the area in question, though it still sounds like a fishy story to me.
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