<Tr> <Th> Inflation </Th> <Td> 4.74% (Jan . - Dec. 2011) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Source </Th> <Td> Índice de Precios al Consumidor 2011, INEC Costa Rica, 3 January 2012 </Td> </Tr> <P> The colón (named after Christopher Columbus, known as Cristóbal Colón in Spanish) is the currency of Costa Rica . The plural is colones . The ISO 4217 code is CRC . </P> <P> 500 colones is unofficially called a dollar in some places throughout Costa Rica . </P>

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