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.

Costa Rica's major source of export income is technology based.

Costa Rica exports electricity to Central America and has the potential to become a major electricity exporter if plans for new generating plants and a regional distribution grid are realized.

Remittances are a major source of income, equivalent to 15 % of the country's GDP, which originate primarily from Costa Rica, the United States, and European Union member states.

In 1879, the Central Pacific Railroad re-routed the Sacramento-Oakland portion of its transcontinental line, establishing a major railroad ferry across the Carquinez Strait from Benicia to Port Costa.

Always called by his countrymen ' Don Chico ', during his presidency he faced the major eruption of the Irazú volcano, that started just as U. S. President John F. Kennedy was visiting Costa Rica and lasted for over a year, causing major agricultural damage and landslides in the city of Cartago.

Started his career in politics as a journalist, director of local newspaper La Tribuna and owner of Diario de Costa Rica, principal newspaper at the time, where he directed his major political campaigns.

Most intercity bus services are operated by CTSA-Portillo, communicating with major urban centers of the Costa del Sol, including Málaga and its airport, and nearby towns in the interior ( Benahavis, Ojen, Ronda ), as well as the Campo including Gibraltar ( La Linea and Algeciras ), some of the major cities of Andalusia ( Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Jerez, Granada, Jaen, Seville and Úbeda ) and Mérida in Extremadura.

The country has six major public universities: the University of Costa Rica ( UCR ), the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica ( ITCR ), the Universidad Nacional ( UNA ), the Universidad Técnica Nacional, the Universidad Para La Paz, and the Universidad de Educacion a Distancia ( UNED ).

The stadium's official name, Adelmar da Costa Carvalho, is in honor of the Sport Recife president who presided over the first major renovation of the stadium.

Located in the Cordillera de Tilarán, roughly a four hour drive from the Central Valley of Costa Rica, Monteverde is considered a major ecotourism destination in Costa Rica.

Due to the acclaimed rain forests and cloud forests in the greater Monteverde area, Monteverde has become a major part of the Costa Rican tourist trail-despite difficult access.

International traffic departs from JMC towards destinations in the United States, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Curaçao and Spain, The airport also serves domestic flights to most major Colombian cities such as Bogota, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta and San Andres Island.

The official major league ball is made by Rawlings, which produces the stitched balls in Costa Rica.

Dieselboy has played on six continents, countries including: England, Scotland, Finland, France, Austria, Serbia, Holland, Macedonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Lithuania, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Venezuela, Costa Rica, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Puerto Rico, and all major cities in the United States and Canada.

Further evidence of the difference between a master's degree and a licentiate is that the two major public universities, the National University of Costa Rica and the University of Costa Rica are phasing out faculty members with licentiate in favor of those who hold graduate degrees.

The Group has consumer food production operations in Ireland and the United Kingdom and a major international ingredients business with manufacturing facilities in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China and Hong Kong, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, the Philippines, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand.

Today, Teradyne operates major facilities in North Reading, Massachusetts ; Agoura Hills, California ; Tualatin, Oregon ; Fridley, Minnesota, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Teradyne Philippines, Teradyne Costa Rica and other locations worldwide.

In 1997-1999, the company expanded its scope to include Asia and Africa, making major purchases in the Philippines, Indonesia and Egypt, as well as Costa Rica.

AC Transit is the major bus transit agency for the region, and provides bus service throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties, hence the " AC " moniker.