8905, the National Geographic Institute is established as a dependency of the National Registry and that the Administrative Board of the National Registry will manage 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 will be the scientific and technical dependency governing national cartography, intended for the execution of the official Basic Map and the basic geographic Description of the Republic of Costa Rica and for studies, investigations or work, and the development of national policies of a cartographic, geographic, geodetic, geophysical nature and of a similar kind related to said works, in order to support planning processes.
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