* 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

* Costa Rican Pre-Columbian City of Guayabo

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.

In Costa Rica, the enchilada is a common, small, spicy pastry made with puff pastry and filled with diced potatoes spiced with a common variation of tabasco sauce or other similar sauces.

sa ), rather than the standard Catalan " el " and " la ", common to other Romance languages ( e. g. Spanish el, la, Italian il, la ), corresponding to a form which was historically used along the Costa Brava of Catalonia, from where it is supposed that the islands were repopulated after being conquered from the Moors.

9-1-1 is a common emergency telephone number, used in countries such as Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Jordan, Liberia, Paraguay, Uruguay and the United States

In Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile and the Philippines the US letter format is still in common use, despite their official adoption of the ISO standard.

Other common synonyms for Malbec include Agreste, Auxerrois, Auxerrois De Laquenexy, Auxerrois Des Moines De Picpus, Auxerrois Du Mans, Balouzat, Beran, Blanc De Kienzheim, Cahors, Calarin, Cauli, Costa Rosa, Cot A Queue Verte, Cotes Rouges, Doux Noir, Estrangey, Gourdaux, Grelot De Tours, Grifforin, Guillan, Hourcat, Jacobain, Luckens, Magret, Malbek, Medoc Noir, Mouranne, Navarien, Negre De Prechac, Negrera, Noir De Chartres, Noir De Pressac, Noir Doux, Nyar De Presak, Parde, Périgord, Pied De Perdrix, Pied Noir, Pied Rouge, Pied Rouget, Piperdy, Plant D ' Arles, Plant De Meraou, Plant Du Roi, Prechat, Pressac, Prunieral, Quercy, Queue Rouge, Quille De Coy, Romieu, Teinturin, Terranis, Vesparo, Côt, Plant du Lot.

The first is that it derives from the tendency of Costa Ricans to use-tico as the diminutive suffix in Spanish instead of the more common and widely-used-ito.

It is more drought-resistant than the common bean ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) and is grown in desert and semi-desert conditions from Arizona through Mexico to Costa Rica.

In addition to being served in many restaurants in Yucatán, Quintana Roo and Oaxaca, this breakfast dish is also common in Cuba and Costa Rica.

It should also be noted that while it is very common in Costa Rica and Panama, the monkey has been largely extirpated from Honduras and much of Nicaragua.

Gallo pinto is a common and typical dish in both Costa Rica and Nicaragua.

An insect pest, common to Guanacaste trees of the Costa Rican Central Valley, produces spherical green galls of 1. 5 cm diameter on new shoots in February and March.

Even during the early 1990s the phenomenon was very common: in 1993 the rate of children born out of wedlock was: in Mexico was 41. 5 %, in Chile-43. 6 %, in Puerto Rico-45. 8 %, in Costa Rica-48. 2 %, in Argentina-52. 7 %, in Belize-58. 1 %, in El Salvador-73 %, in Panama-80 %.

The pronunciation of the phoneme as a voiced strident ( or sibilant ) apical fricative is common in New Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica ; highland areas of Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile ; western and northern Argentina, and Paraguay.

A common Portuguese dish, mainly eaten in winter, is cozido à portuguesa, which somewhat parallels the French pot au feu, the Spanish cocido, the New England boiled dinner or the Costa Rican casado.

In general, " Costa " ( or simila ) is a common Romance toponym indicating a coastal location.

At the time a self-acknowledged playboy with a taste for fast-racing sportscars, Maluf entered professional politics thanks to his family's friendship with the then military president Artur da Costa e Silva, with whom he shared a common interest in Horse racing bets.

The book Costa Rica Precolombina by Luis Ferrero Acosta ( Editorial Costa Rica, 2000 ) mentions that the Spanish explorers found a pejibaye plantation of 30, 000 trees on the Atlantic coast of Costa Rica, and that its fermented fruit was a major part of the indigenous diet, replacing corn as was common further north.

Trips to England, France and Ireland are quite common, but other locations have included Uganda, Costa Rica, Senegal and Japan.

Some common butterflies and moths in Costa Rica include:

Anteaters are common in lowland and middle elevation throughout Costa Rica.

Scarlet Macaws are a common species to Costa Rica.

The museum Museo Nacional de Costa Rica was placed in the Cuartel Bellavista as a symbol of commitment to culture.

Traditional marimba bands are especially popular in Guatemala where they are the national symbol of culture, but are also strongly established in southern Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, as well as among Afro-Ecuadorians and Afro-Colombians.

The same symbol for colon () is used in both El Salvador and Costa Rica.

Traditionally, a shepherd, Sauveur Costa, is credited with converting the hymn not only to a Corsican anthem, but to a rallying symbol for Corsican independence.

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