Clementina Espinoza (left), 92, kisses her husband Agustin Espinoza, 100, in Nicoya, Costa Rica.The couple lives in one of the five Blue Zones of the world, where longevity is a characteristic in a higher than usual number of people. Photos: EZEQUIEL BECERRA/AFP
Aged 94, Saturnino "Sato" Lopez rises early each day, chops wood and takes long walks in a part of Costa Rica that's a global oddity: like him, people there tend to live a very long time.
Home for Sato is the Nicoya Peninsula, where 1,010 people aged 90 or older live in a so-called "Blue Zone" – five areas around the world where life expectancy is particularly high.
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