The golden toad of Monteverde, Costa Rica, was among the first casualties of amphibian declines.

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According to the SEC, Aon ’ s subsidiaries made improper payments of over $ 3. 6 million to government officials and third party facilitators in Costa Rica, Egypt, Vietnam, Indonesia, the United Arab Emirates, Myanmar and Bangladesh, between 1983 and 2007, in order to obtain and retain insurance contracts.

Abacá ( ; from Spanish " abacá " for Musa textilis ), Musa textilis, is a species of banana native to the Philippines, grown as a commercial crop in the Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Abaca fiber drying in abaca farm, Costa Rica

Today, abaca is produced commercially in only three countries: Philippines, Ecuador, and Costa Rica.

Yields are highest in Costa Rica, but the industry is new and planted acreage limited.

In Costa Rica, more modern harvest and drying techniques are being developed to accommodate the very high yields obtained there.

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

In general Spanish, they are known as cortaplumas ( penknife, when it comes to folding blades ); in Spain, Mexico, and Costa Rica, they are colloquially known as cutters ; and in Uruguay the segmented fixed-blade knives are known as " trinchetas ".

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The Cayman Rise extends from southeastern Cuba along the northern margin of the Cayman Trough toward Costa Rica and resulted from Paleocene to Eocene island arc formation with associated volcanism along an extinct subduction zone.

Clipperton Island ( or ) is an uninhabited coral atoll in the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at.

In 1988, five Mexican fishermen became lost at sea after a storm that occurred during their trip along the coast of Costa Rica.

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.

The colonial period began when Christopher Columbus reached the eastern coast of Costa Rica on his fourth voyage in 1502.

Numerous subsequent Spanish expeditions followed, eventually leading to the first Spanish colony, Villa Bruselas in Costa Rica in 1524.

During most of the colonial period, Costa Rica was the southernmost province of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which was nominally part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain ( i. e., Mexico ), but which in practice operated as a largely autonomous entity within the Spanish Empire.

Costa Rica's distance from the capital in Guatemala, its legal prohibition under Spanish law to trade with its southern neighbors in Panama, then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada ( i. e., Colombia ), and the lack of resources such as gold and silver, made Costa Rica into a poor, isolated, and sparsely inhabited region within the Spanish Empire.

Costa Rica was described as " the poorest and most miserable Spanish colony in all America " by a Spanish governor in 1719.

The economy of Costa Rica heavily depends on tourism, agriculture, and electronics exports.

The U. S. accounts for almost half of Costa Rica's exports, imports, and tourism, and more than two-thirds of its foreign investment.

Shortly thereafter the House passed, by a vote of 217-215, the Dominican Republic Central American Free Trade Agreement ( DR-CAFTA ) to open U. S. exports up, duty free, to the Central American nations of the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.

It also serves as a port of exports and imports with neighboring Costa Rica.

It exports to the U. S., Canada, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago, with exports to China and South America beginning in 2012.

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.

In 2004, 46. 7 % of Costa Rica's primary energy came from renewable sources, while 94 % of its electricity was generated from hydroelectric power, wind farms and geothermal energy in 2006.

It was enlarged to its present size as a part of a 1979 hydroelectric project by the Costa Rican government to provide electricity to the country.

This hydroelectric project is hugely important to Costa Rica, initially generating 70 % of the country's electricity, now closer to 17 %, and was also a driving force behind Costa Rica's green energy policy.

Costa Rica joined other Central American provinces in 1821 in a joint declaration of independence from Spain.

Costa Rica became a state in the Federal Republic of Central America.

Costa Rica has avoided much of the violence that has plagued much of Central America.

Costa Rica is located on the Central American Isthmus, surrounding the point 10 ° north of the equator and 84 ° west of the prime meridian.

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.

Like all Central American countries, Costa Rica is considered part of a biodiversity hotspot.

Costa Rica major economic resources are its fertile land and frequent rainfall, its well-educated population, and its location in the Central American isthmus, which provides easy access to North and South American markets and direct ocean access to the European and Asian Continents.

With a $ 1. 92-billion-a-year tourism industry, Costa Rica stands as the most visited nation in the Central American region, with 1. 9 million foreign visitors in 2007, thus reaching a rate of foreign tourists per capita of 0. 46, one of the highest in the Caribbean Basin, and above other popular destinations such as Mexico ( 0. 21 ), Dominican Republic ( 0. 38 ), and Brazil ( 0. 03 ).

Costa Rica joined other Central American countries, plus the Dominican Republic, in establishing a Trade and Investment Council with the United States in March 1998.

With the establishment of democratically-elected governments in all Central American nations by the 1990s, Costa Rica turned its focus from regional conflicts to the pursuit of neoliberal policies on the isthmus.

Costa Rica also participated in the multinational Partnership for Democracy and Development in Central America.

Costa Rica has sought concrete economic ties with its Central American neighbors rather than the establishment of regional political institutions, and it chose not to join the Central American Parliament.

Central America consists of the seven states of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama.

In 1540, Spain established the Captaincy General of Guatemala, which extended from southern Mexico to Costa Rica, and thus encompassed most of what is currently known as Central America, with the exception of British Honduras ( present-day Belize ).

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In Costa Rica in May 1997, former President Carlos Roberto Reina met with former US President Bill Clinton, his Central American counterparts, and the President of the Dominican Republic to reaffirm support for strengthening democracy, good governance, and promoting prosperity through economic integration, free trade, and investment.

In an attempt to highlight his stands on key Reagan Era foreign policy initiatives, Kemp traveled in September 1987 to Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador to lobby the presidents of those nations against the Arias Peace Plan-a peace accord US conservatives felt too conciliatory to Central American communists.

Listed below are the 28 categories tabulated in the 2000 United States Census: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic ; Central American: Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Other Central American ; South American: Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Other South American ; Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American, All other Hispanic or Latino.

Map of Central America ( 1860s ), pictured is Nicaragua along with the Guanacaste Province which then belonged to Nicaragua but was incorporated with present-day Costa Rica in 1825.

Panama is a country located in the Central America region of North America, bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, between Colombia and Costa Rica.

As a whole, the range between Costa Rica and the canal is generally referred to by Panamanian geographers as the Cordillera Central.

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