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

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San Francisco from Indian RockPolitically, the area that became Berkeley was initially part of a vast Contra Costa County.

On March 25, 1853, Alameda County was created by division of Contra Costa County, as well as from a small portion of Santa Clara County.

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

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.

For all these reasons Costa Rica was by and large unappreciated and overlooked by the Spanish Crown and left to develop on its own.

" 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.

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.

Costa Rica was a pioneer in this type of tourism and the country is recognized as one of the few with real ecotourism.

Costa Rica signed a bilateral trade agreement with Mexico in 1994, which was later amended to cover a wider range of products.

In 1949, the abolition of the military was introduced in Article 12 of the Costa Rican Constitution.

The museum Museo Nacional de Costa Rica was placed in the Cuartel Bellavista as a symbol of commitment to culture.

Costa Rica is an active member of the international community and, in 1983, claimed it was for neutrality.

Costa Rica was among the first to call for a postponement of the May 22 elections in Peru when international observer missions found electoral machinery not prepared for the vote count.

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.

Spiaggia del Principe, one of the beaches along the Costa Smeralda, was named after this Ishmaelite Prince.

Crick began a Ph. D. research project on measuring viscosity of water at high temperatures ( which he later described as " the dullest problem imaginable ") in the laboratory of physicist Edward Neville da Costa Andrade at University College, London, but with the outbreak of World War II ( in particular, an incident during the Battle of Britain when a bomb fell through the roof of the laboratory and destroyed his experimental apparatus ), Crick was deflected from a possible career in physics.

Preliminary work was begun in 2004 on a 10-year project to construct a new hotel and marina project on the Eastside of the Rock, overlooking Spain's Costa del Sol.

His book, The Outline of History was read by José Figueres Ferrer in 1920 while at MIT, the Costa Rican revolutionary and 3-time president, who took the book to heart, and permanently abolished the military of Costa Rica in 1948, and banned the military in the Constitution.

* Alexander Madrigal ( born 1972 ), Costa Rican-Mexican footballer

* Diego Madrigal ( born 1989 ), Costa Rican football striker

* Roger Madrigal ( born 1972 ), Costa Rican slalom canoer

* Orlando dos Santos Costa ( born 1981 ), Brazilian footballer

* Robert A. Costa ( born 1958 ), Maryland House of Delegates member since 2003

Stevenson was born in Torrance, California and attended Mira Costa High School, with fellow members of the Descendents.

José Sarney de Araújo Costa (; born 24 April 1930 in Pinheiro, Maranhão ) is a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician.

Óscar Arias Sánchez ( born 13 September 1940 ) is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2006 to 2010.

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.

* Alex Sanchez Cruz ( born 1930 ), Costa Rican footballer

* Montserrat Hidalgo ( born 1968 ), Costa Rican breaststroke swimmer

* April-Uriel da Costa, Portuguese philosopher ( born c. 1585 )

* February 25-Manuel da Costa, Jesuit historian ( born 1541 )

* Luís Rodríguez ( born 1992 ), member of the Costa Rican team in the 2009 FIFA under-17 world cup

Chamorro was born in 1929 to a wealthy family in Rivas, a small city near the Nicaraguan border with Costa Rica.

* Tony da Costa Pinho ( born 1983 ), Brazilian footballer

Meredith Vieira was born in East Providence, Rhode Island, to Mary Louisa Elsie Rosa Silveira Vieira ( née Costa ) ( October 28, 1904 – November 5, 2004 ) and Dr. Edwin Vieira ( May 15, 1904 – February 1987 ), both first-generation Portuguese Americans.

Abel Pacheco de la Espriella ( born 22 December 1933, in San José ) was president of Costa Rica between 2002 and 2006, representing the Social Christian Unity Party ( Partido Unidad Social Cristiana – PUSC ).

* Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa ( born 1937 ), president of Portuguese sports club F. C.

Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría ( born 9 January 1940 ) is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician.

José María Figueres Olsen ( born in San José, Costa Rica, December 24, 1954 ), is a Costa Rican businessman, and politician.