2025 in Costa Rica

See also: 2025 in Central America

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Events in the year 2025 in Costa Rica.

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Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2025 Timeline of Costa Rican history

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

• 21 February – The United States deports 135 migrants to Costa Rica.^[1]
• 1 March – The Falkland Islands Cricket Team tours the country after 14 years.^[2][3]
• 31 March – The Poás Volcano erupts and sends ash plumes 1,000 m high.^[4]
• 19 June – Exiled Nicaraguan opposition figure Roberto Samcam is shot dead at his residence in San Jose.^[5]
• 20 July – American actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner dies in a drowning accident in Playa Cocles, Limón Province.^[6]
• 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.^[7]

Holidays

Further information: Public holidays in Costa Rica

Source:^[8]

• 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]
• 9 July – Brunhilda de Portilla, 96, educator and composer.^[10]