8905, the National Geographic Institute is established as a dependency of the National Registry and that the Administrative Board of the National Registry shall administer the Institute's budget and sign the contracts and agreements necessary for the exercise of its functions. Likewise, it is established that the National Geographic Institute shall be the scientific and technical agency governing national cartography, responsible for the execution of the official Basic Map and the basic geographic description of the Republic of Costa Rica and for studies, research, work, and the development of national policies of a cartographic, geographic, geodetic, geophysical, and similar nature related to such works, in order to support planning processes.
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