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.

Until 2006 Costa Rica maintained its embassy in Jerusalem.

But Costa Rica protested that Costa Rican rights to the San Juan River had been infringed, and El Salvador maintained that the proposed naval base would affect both it and Honduras.

The high pitch was maintained by Sir Michael Costa for the Crystal Palace Handel Festivals, causing the withdrawal of the principal tenor Sims Reeves in 1877, though at singers ' insistence the Birmingham Festival pitch was lowered ( and the organ retuned ) at that time.

Ever since, Costa Rica has had no army and has maintained a 7, 500-member national police force for a population of over four million .< sup id =" fn_6_back "> 6 </ sup >

Until the early 1990s the MLSTP maintained extensive relations with Angola and the MPLA, with Pinto da Costa himself having enjoyed a friendly relationship with José Eduardo dos Santos, the President of Angola, extending back to when they were both young men.

Since that time, Costa Rica has been briefly invaded once, by Nicaragua, but has maintained its territorial integrity through reliance on diplomacy within international structures such as the OAS.

In June 2006, Costa made implied criticism of Britain's decision to downgrade cannabis from a Class B drug to Class C, stating that countries " got the drug problem they deserved " if they maintained inadequate policies.

In 2004 Thomson Holidays, the UK's No1 Tour Operator launched a short series of peak season charter flights to Palma ( Mallorca ), Ibiza and Lanzarote using a Spanair A320, flights to Palma were maintained ( and Costa Dorada ( Reus ) was added for a couple of seasons ) through to 2010.

While the AC format was maintained on " FM 93 ," the call sign was changed to WSNE and several high-profile Providence personalities joined the station's staff including Mike Sands, Paul Perry, Bob Hollands and Patty Costa.

The Costa Rica MLS is the official MLS of the Costa Rica Chamber of Real Estate Brokers Board.

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Estes Park's official sister city is Monteverde, Costa Rica.

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.

Galindo's father was a government official in Costa Rica.

In Costa Rica, the only official MLS with verified real estate listings in the country is governed by CCCBR ( Costa Rica Chamber of Real Estate Brokers Board ), and the software is designed by Propertyshelf.

In 2007, Christian Sapsizian, a former adjunct to the vicepresident of Alcatel for Latin America, pleaded guilty in the U. S. District Court of Miami to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by conspiring with Edgar Valverde ( the president of Alcatel in Costa Rica ) to bribe an " official " of the Costa Rican Institute of Electricity ( ICE ) and a " senior government official " of Costa Rica.

The prosecution in Costa Rica alleges that the " senior government official " was President Rodríguez, and that the ICE official was José Antonio Lobo, who has agreed to testify against Rodríguez in exchange for immunity from prosection.

Costa Rica ’ s political constitution establishes the Catholic faith as the official State religion.

In 2004, Costa Rica ’ s Attorney General opened official investigations against two other former presidents, for alleged financial misconduct.

The Punto Guanacaste is the official national dance of Costa Rica, a country perhaps best known for its own distinct variety of popular calypso music.

The official flag of the Republic of Costa Rica is based on a design created in 1848.

The official coat of arms of the Republic of Costa Rica was designed in 1848, with modifications in 1906, 1964, and most recently the 1998 addition of smoke to distinguish three volcanoes (" Se dibujaron los volcanes humeantes para diferenciarlos.

The official language of Costa Rica is Spanish.

Its official name is the President Costa e Silva Bridge, in honor of the Brazilian President, Artur da Costa e Silva, who ordered its construction.