* 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.

Following this review, Figueres amended his tax filings to include income earned outside of Costa Rica, which is not subject to Costa Rican tax, and paid 67. 2 million Costa Rican colones in taxes.

Rafael Yglesias appears on Costa Rican paper money in the denomination of 5 colones.

* In 1982 and 1983, the American Bank Note Company printed banknotes for Costa Rica ( 20 colones dated 1983 and trial notes of 100 colones ) and Haiti ( 1, 2, 50, 100, 250 and 500 Gourdes, on DuPont's Tyvek polymers.

The Costa Rican government charges a $ 28 USD departure fee, which can be paid in cash ( dollars or colones ) or by credit card.

1 Costa Rican colon (₡)

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.

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 ).

In just 20 years, a teak plantation in Costa Rica can produce up to about 400 m of wood per hectare.

The Kensington Branch Library of the Contra Costa County Library enjoys one of the highest circulation per capita rates of any Contra Costa County Library.

The minimum wage of $ 8. 00 per hour is about half of the income required to live in Costa Mesa.

Two studies in Costa Rica and on Barro Colorado Island ( BCI ), Panama, found that there are approximately four bullet ant nests per hectare of forest.

Before the vote, the representative of Costa Rica expressed his " concern at the manner in which the draft resolution on which we are about to vote was negotiated " and a " difficulty in understanding the absolute refusal to include " references to human rights .. MINURSO's budget is roughly 60 million dollars per year.

Costa also gave up his € 4. 6 million per year contract to play in the club that, year after year, had dreamt of his return.

Un passeig per la Costa Daurada ( Water travel.

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.

Despite opposing the United States in favour of the Sandanistas on the country's northern border, stern warnings against the US Bay of Pigs invasion, along with repelling Nicaraguan dictator Somoza's invasion after turning to the Organization of American States, and border disputes with Nicaragua, Costa Rica has held firmly to its belief against ever having a military.

Panama, after suffering from the combined effects of Manuel Noriega's dictatorship and the US invasion of Panama in 1990, subsequently abolished its military and constitutionally banned it in 1994, no doubt influenced by its neighbour Costa Rica.

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.

However, neither Guatemala nor Costa Rica had made any request for US intervention ; El Salvador did in 1984, well after the US had intervened unilaterally.

UPEACE / US projects include DCPEACE, an initiative to empower teachers, youth, and families with the skills and knowledge necessary to effectively serve as peacebuilders in their communities and PeaceRooms, a program that connect classrooms of middle school students from Costa Rica and Washington D. C. through the use of innovative virtual networking technology for the purpose of developing core concepts of global citizenship and peace education. UPEACE / US website

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.

# The US and Costa Rican Democracy

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

During the first half of 1976, Năstase won four tournaments ( Atlanta WCT, Avis Challenge Cup WCT, US Open Indoor, and La Costa ), and head-to-head, he led Connors 2 – 1, Vilas 1 – 0, Ashe 1 – 0, and Borg 2 – 0.

According to the sentence, Mr. Messent should pay a fine of US $ 160, 000 to the Costa Rican state.

Rodríguez was tried in Costa Rica for allegedly receiving more than US $ 800, 000 in payments from Alcatel, a French telecommunications company, in exchange for helping the company receive a government contract to provide 400, 000 cell phone lines.

In 2010 Alcatel-Lucent agreed to pay a fine of US $ 137. 4 million to avoid US prosecution for alleged bribes paid in several countries, including Kenya, Taiwan and Costa Rica.

In a separate deal with Costa Rican government, Alcatel-Lucent also agreed to pay a fine of US $ 10 million.

Calderon's wife, Mrs. Gloria Bejarano Almada, who currently serves as a deputy at the Asamblea Legislativa ( congress of the country ) and who is a member of the parliament's directorate, was sentenced to pay US $ 70 000 to the Costa Rican government for her participation in the scandal.

Bosch was given safe haven within the US in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush, who in 1976 as head of the CIA had declined an offer by Costa Rica to extradite Bosch.

After an arrest in Costa Rica which saw the US decline an offer by the authorities to extradite Bosch to the United States, he was deported to the Dominican Republic, where June 1976 saw the founding of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations ( CORU ).

The Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ) made nearshoring more attractive between the Central American countries of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic and the US.