* 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 March 2000, doctors at the San Juan de Dios Hospital in San José, Costa Rica, published the manuscripts of the Costa Rican scientist and medical doctor Clodomiro ( Clorito ) Picado Twight ( 1887 – 1944 ).

However, in fall 2004, three former Costa Rican presidents ( Jose Maria Figueres, Miguel Angel Rodríguez, and Rafael Angel Calderon ) were investigated on corruption charges related to the issuance of government contracts.

Costa Rica occupied a nonpermanent seat in the Security Council from 1997 to 1999 and exercised a leadership role in confronting crises in the Middle East and Africa, as well as in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

This union consisted of the present day nations of Guatemala ( which included the former state of Los Altos ), El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica ( which included a region which is now part of Panama, and the Guanacaste Province which was once part of Nicaragua ), and Soconusco, a portion of the modern Mexican state of Chiapas.

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.

Costa Rica abolished its army in 1948, the former President, H. E.

** Daniel Oduber Quirós, Costa Rican politician, former president of the Republic ( b. 1921 )

In 1957 he went to New York City where he auditioned for Don Costa at ABC, singing what was widely believed to be a lovestruck verse he had written to a former babysitter.

Other former sites include California ( Dixon, Delano ), Hawaii, Okinawa, Liberia, Costa Rica, and Belize.

Bayview-Montalvin is a former census-designated place ( CDP ) in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

Blackhawk-Camino Tassajara is a former census-designated place ( CDP ) in Contra Costa County, California, near the town of Danville.

Moraga ( incorporating the former communities of Moraga Town, Rheem, and Rheem Valley ) is a suburban incorporated town located in Contra Costa County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Waldon is a former census-designated place ( CDP ) in Contra Costa County, California, United States.

The Costa Rican constitution had been amended in 1969 to include a clause which forbade former presidents seeking re-election.

Among the noted musical figures born in the state are Dorival Caymmi ; João Gilberto ; Gilberto Gil, the former ( 2003 – 2008 ) country's Minister of Culture ; Caetano Veloso and his sister Maria Bethânia ( Gil and Veloso being the founders of the Tropicália movement ( a native adaptation of the hippie movement ) of the late 1960s and early 1970s, which ultimate gained international recognition ); Gal Costa ; Luis Caldas ; Sara Jane ; Daniela Mercury ; Ivete Sangalo ; Carlinhos Brown and Margareth Menezes.

* Port Chicago, California a former town and Naval Station in Contra Costa, County

Augusto Rademaker and Márcio Melo, former Integralistas, served as two of the three member junta that briefly ruled Brazil in 1969, during the transition from the second military government ( that of Artur da Costa e Silva ) to the third ( that of Emílio Médici ).

It is estimated that the party met 70-80 guerrillas in the area under the military command of former military Osvaldo Orlando da Costa ( Osvaldão ) and under the command of Mauritius maximum Grabois ( then commander in chief of the guerrillas ).

Many were former Liberals ( PLI ), Republicans ( PRI ) and Social Democrats ( PSDI ): Alfredo Biondi ( President of Forza Italia's National Council ) and Raffaele Costa, both former PLI leaders, and former PSDI leader Carlo Vizzini were later MPs for Forza Italia.

This group was basically formed by two wings: classical liberals ( former members of the Italian Liberal Party, most of them organized in Popular Liberalism, as Alfredo Biondi, Raffaele Costa, Egidio Sterpa and Enrico Nan ); former Socialists, as Renato Brunetta and Paolo Guzzanti ; others like Stefania Prestigiacomo and Simone Baldelli ) and liberatarians, as Antonio Martino ( ex-PLI ), Dario Rivolta, Benedetto Della Vedova ( ex-Radical ) and his Liberal Reformers.

He offered membership in his Inner Circle to Archangel, Storm, and Sunspot ( also known as Roberto da Costa, son of former White Rook Emmanuel da Costa ), but all declined.

Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz ( born April 5, 1950 ) is a Costa Rican American mechanical engineer, physicist and former NASA astronaut.

STS-61-C's seven-person crew included the second African-American shuttle pilot, future NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the first Costa Rican-born astronaut, Franklin Chang-Diaz, and the second sitting politician to fly in space, Representative Bill Nelson ( D-FL ).