Urbano 106 105.9

Urbano 106 105.9 is deep in Costa Rica's listing, at 22 of 22. Down here the ordering barely orders anything: the difference between one position and the next is often a single recorded open, so treat the neighbours below as a shelf rather than as a ranking.

Urbano 106 105.9 broadcasts in English from Costa Rica, where the directory records only two stations doing so. Costa Rica's listing is otherwise led by Spanish, so this is a genuinely unusual entry on its own national dial rather than one of a set.

English radio in this directory sits largely in United States, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom, with 5,984 stations on the shelf in total. This page's station is one of the entries that make the shelf wider than any single country.

Urbano 106 105.9 is the only station in Costa Rica whose first tag is hip-hop, out of 22 with pages here. Tags come from the broadcasters themselves, so this says the station describes itself in a way no other entry in Costa Rica does, which is a narrower and more honest claim than saying it is the country's only hip-hop station.

At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on Costa Rica's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.