Curridabat, Costa Rica under its “Sweet City” project has granted Costa Rican citizenship to its pollinators.

The canton of Curridabat is located north of the province of San José, Costa Rica. Currently, it has 77 thousand inhabitants, being the twenty-seventh most populated canton in the country.

Being one of the most populated cantons of Costa Rica, has led the population of Curridabat to consider new ways of life and organization. This is how the “Sweet City” project was born.

Curridabat, the Sweet City

Curridabat, Costa Rica under its "Sweet City" project has granted Costa Rican citizenship to its pollinators.
Source: Curridabat Municipality

Indeed, for years Latin America has been adopting urban development models that are neither suited to its social and geographic reality nor to its needs.

All these traditional and old models have not been updated and have been left behind in the face of global challenges such as climate change, inequality, human security, the technological gap and connectivity, etc.

For this reason, the municipality and its people decided to adopt a development model that integrates the needs of each living being and of the elements that are necessarily involved in the urban ecosystem. By considering the needs of interdependent organisms, the protection of the resources that make the general welfare possible is guaranteed.

In this way, the new model that was integrated attempts to eliminate the antagonism between city and nature in order to achieve ecosystemic balance. Thus, by ensuring the basic conditions for natural resources to thrive, the living beings that inhabit this ecosystem will also thrive.

This is the vision that the “Sweet City” project takes: to improve the resilience of Curridabat, paying attention to all members of the community, including nature and marginalized elements left behind by traditional development models.

Pollinators

Curridabat, Costa Rica under its "Sweet City" project has granted Costa Rican citizenship to its pollinators.

Thus, pollinators (bees, butterflies, hummingbirds), plants and other related organisms are recognized as catalysts of the ecosystemic processes that guarantee well-being for all.

By protecting pollinating organisms and considering them as agents of prosperity, an expansive effect of positive impacts on community members and the city is promoted.

For this reason, Curridabat has become a sensitive city, capable of understanding its members and its environment.

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