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Encyclopedia ID 648

Chromos

Also known as card flipping

Illustration pattern only. No free-licence photograph yet: can you suggest one?

Players slap cards so they flip, winning those they turn over.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Costa Rica.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of The Americas: Mesoamerica.

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