* 1977 – Kurt Bernard, Costa Rican footballer

* 1977 – Douglas Sequeira, Costa Rican footballer

* 1974 – Luis Marín, Costa Rican footballer

However, the indigenous people have influenced modern Costa Rican culture to a relatively small degree, as most of these died from diseases such as smallpox and mistreatment by the Spaniards.

Another important factor behind Costa Rica's poverty was the lack of a significant indigenous population available for forced labor, which meant that most of the Costa Rican settlers had to work on their own land, preventing the establishment of large haciendas.

He intended to expand into Costa Rica and after he entered Costa Rican territory, Costa Rica declared war.

Costa Rican forces followed the filibusters into Rivas, Nicaragua, where in a final battle, William Walker and his forces were finally pushed back.

" With more than 2, 000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rican Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in twentieth-century Costa Rican history ", but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military.

* Costa Rican Archaeology

It is part of many ecoregions, including Costa Rican seasonal moist forests, Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves, Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves, Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves, Central American dry forests, and Talamancan montane forests.

Together the protected areas comprise over one-fourth of Costa Rican territory.

Immigrants in Costa Rica represent about 10. 2 % of the Costa Rican population.

: Noun: Costa Rican ( s )

: Adjective: Costa Rican

* Costa Rican Renovation Party ( Partido Renovación Costariccense ).

In particular, an attempt by the Legislative Assembly to approve a law that opened up the electricity and telecommunication markets ( controlled by a monopoly of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity-ICE ) to market competition, known as the " Combo " law, was met with strong social opposition.

The prohibition was officially recognized as unconstitutional in April 2003, allowing Óscar Arias to run for President a second time in the 2006 Costa Rican presidential elections, which he won with approximately a 1 % margin.

Pre-Columbian Ceramics from Nicoya, Costa Rica

In Pre-Columbian times the Native Americans in what is now Costa Rica were part of a cultural complex known as the " Intermediate Area ," between the Mesoamerican and Andean cultural regions.

Pre-Columbian stone sphere, located at the University of Costa Rica as a symbol of tradition and ancient wisdom.

* In 1870 the small City of Ragusa ( Dubrovnik ) became the first small Lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Cork to Boston with two men crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac ( di Costa ), only.

Costa Rica ( Roman Catholic ), Denmark ( Evangelical Lutheran ), El Salvador ( Roman Catholic ), England ( Anglican ), Finland ( Evangelical Lutheran & Orthodox ), Georgia ( Georgian Orthodox ), Greece ( Greek Orthodox ), Iceland ( Evangelical Lutheran ), Liechtenstein ( Roman Catholic ), Malta ( Roman Catholic ), Monaco ( Roman Catholic ), and Vatican City ( Roman Catholic ).

In 1997, Hoffman starred opposite John Travolta in the Costa Gavras film Mad City and gained his seventh Academy Award nomination for his performance in Wag The Dog, in a role that allowed Hoffman the chance to work with both Robert De Niro and Denis Leary.

Road space rationing based on license numbers has been implemented in cities such as Athens ( 1982 ), México City ( 1989 ), São Paulo ( 1997 ), Santiago, Chile, Bogotá, Colombia, La Paz ( 2003 ), Bolivia, and San José ( 2005 ), Costa Rica.

APRA was originally founded by Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre in Mexico City on 7 May 1924 with aspirations to becoming a continent-wide party, and it subsequently influenced a number of other Latin American political movements, including Bolivia's Revolutionary Nationalist Movement ( Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, MNR ) and Costa Rica's National Liberation Party ( Partido Liberación Nacional, PLN ).

In 1957 he went to New York City where he auditioned for Don Costa at ABC, singing what was widely believed to be a lovestruck verse he had written to a former babysitter.

With these modern aircraft SAM united the most important cities of the country ( Medellín, Bogotá, Cali, Barranquilla, Pereira, Montería, Valledupar, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Riohacha, Cúcuta, Leticia, and Quibdó ), as well as several regional destinations ( San Andrés, Providencia Island, Capurganá, Bahía Solano, Caucasia, Puerto Berrío, Chigorodó, and Nuquí ) as well as a number of international destinations ( Aruba, Guatemala City, San José de Costa Rica, Panama, Quito, Caracas, and Curaçao ).

Although Panama City itself is not planned, certain areas are such as Costa del Este, an exclusive high density residential and business area, very close to downtown Panama City.

Places worth seeing in the city include the Basilica of Los Angeles, the " Ruins of Santiago Apostle Church ", The City Museum, Maria Auxiliadora church, the Technological Institute of Costa Rica, The Central Market ( especially on Thursdays and Saturdays ), and the main building of San Luis Gonzaga High School, site of the first Central American Supreme Court.

It comprised the following eight institutions: Africa Nazarene University ( Ongata Rongai, Kenya ); Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary ( Taytay, Rizal, Philippines ); Brazil Nazarene College ( Campinas, Brazil ); Korea Nazarene University ( Cheonan, South Korea ); Nazarene Theological College, ( Brisbane, Australia ); Nazarene Theological College, ( Manchester, England ); Nazarene Theological Seminary ( Kansas City, Missouri ); and Seminario Nazareno de las Americas ( SENDAS ) ( San Jose, Costa Rica ).

That year, US Airways began service to Costa Rica, Mexico City, and St. Kitts.

** Guatemala City, El Salvador, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Managua, Nicaragua, San José, Costa Rica, Panama City

More recently, several companies started offering bike messenger services in Central and South America, specifically in México City, México ; San José, Costa Rica ; Bogotá, Colombia ; Buenos Aires, Argentina and Santiago, Chile

TBN is based in Costa Mesa, California, with auxiliary studio facilities in Irving, Texas ; Hendersonville, Tennessee ; Gadsden, Alabama ; Decatur, Georgia ; Miami, Florida ; Tulsa, Oklahoma ; Orlando, Florida ; and New York City.

Serious radiation accidents include the Kyshtym disaster, Windscale fire, radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica, radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza, radiation accident in Morocco, Goiania accident, radiation accident in Mexico City, radiotherapy unit accident in Thailand, and the Mayapuri radiological accident in India.

Some examples are Atlantis in the Bahamas, the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida, Costa do Sauípe in the Northeastern Brazil, Laguna Phuket in Thailand and Sun City near Johannesburg in South Africa.

Being able to see the Island of Vitoria and the City of Vila Velha and one of the most beautiful beaches along the coast of Brazil called Praia da Costa.

Branches outside of the USA are to be found in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico City, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, South Africa, Israel, United Kingdom.

These included Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Belize, Grand Cayman, Managua, Guatemala City, Costa Rica, San Salvador, Panamá, Colombia and Perú.

This led to the establishment of JCI organizations in Mexico City, Guatemala City, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama City in 1943.

* Costa Rican city of Guayabo petroglyphs