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.

It settled on a location north of Oakland along the foot of the Contra Costa Range ( later called the Berkeley Hills ) astride Strawberry Creek, at an elevation about above the bay, commanding a fantastic view of the Bay Area and the Pacific Ocean through the Golden Gate.

The mountain range of the divide is called the Cordillera de Talamanca near the Costa Rican border.

According to Hiram Araújo da Costa, over the centuries, the festival of dances of slaves in Bahia were called samba.

The armed resistance to the Sandinistas in Costa Rica initially called itself the Nicaraguan Revolutionary Democratic Alliance ( ADREN ) and was known as the 15th of September Legion.

The also helped attract popular and international support by organizing a group of prominent Nicaraguan professionals, business leaders, and clergymen ( known as " the Twelve "), who called for Somoza's removal and sought to organize a provisional government from Costa Rica.

The original settlement in what is now the downtown was initially called " Contra Costa " (" opposite shore ", the Spanish name for the lands on the east side of the Bay ) and was included in Contra Costa County before Alameda County was established on March 25, 1853.

There is a private university of art and architecture in Costa Rica called " Universidad Veritas " (: es: Universidad Veritas ).

In November 2007, Daevid Allen held a series of concerts in Brazil, with a branch of Gong, which was called Daevid Allen and Gong Global Family ( Daevid Allen on vocals and guitar, Josh Pollock on guitar, megaphone and percussion ; Fred Barley on drums and percussion ; Fabio Golfetti on guitar, Gabriel Costa on bass, Marcelo Ringel on flute and tenor saxophone ), along with his other band University of Errors ( Allen, Josh Pollock, Michael Clare, Fred Barley ).

The grant was given the name Rancho San Pablo, thus originating the name for today's city as well as for one of the East Bay's oldest principal roads, today's San Pablo Avenue ( called in the prior Spanish era " El Camino Real de la Contra Costa ").

The commercial district surrounding South Coast Plaza, which contains parts of northern Costa Mesa and southern Santa Ana, is sometimes called South Coast Metro.

The 2011 Shaw Prize, often called " Asia's Nobel Prize ," was sharred by Fishman and Italian astronomer Enrico Costa for their gamma-ray research.

" Urban Struggle " depicts the constant fighting that would occur in the early 1980s Los Angeles / Orange County music scene between the punk rock fans who congregated at a Costa Mesa, California club called the Cuckoo's Nest and the country music fans who gathered at nearby Zuby's.

In San Jose, Costa Rica, there is a bar called " El Lobo Estepario.

It has traditionally been brewed in a native Costa Rican drip brew device called a chorreador.

Costa Rican restaurants serving traditional food at an affordable price are called sodas and usually offer casados for lunch and dinner.

In 1962, while travelling around the Costa Brava Rimbaud and his friend Mick Smee ( also known as " the Pope ") made up a dance called Le Twiddle as a riposte to both the Twist and to a lesser extent Johnny Hallyday's Le Madison.

The city is located in a valley, some over the sea and surrounded by a mountain range called the Coastal Range ( Cordillera de la Costa ).

Valencia is located in a central valley, surrounded by a mountain range called the Coastal Range ( Cordillera de la Costa ).

Costa Ricans are usually called ticos by themselves and persons of other Spanish-speaking countries, in place of the more formal costarricenses.

In Costa Rica, a salad dressing called Salsa Rosada ( pink sauce ) is served with a cabbage salad.

By linking the specimens to type material through morphology and DNA barcoding, they determined that the species distributed from Costa Rica to southern Quebec and Ontario, should be called A. aurea, whereas the similar and marginally sympatric species found in Central America should be called A. pustulella.

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.