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History of Costa Rica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (607 words) |
 | Costa Rica was then the southern-most province in the Spanish territory of New Spain. |
| The small landowners' relative poverty, the lack of a large indigenous labor force, the population's ethnic and linguistic homogeneity, and Costa Rica's isolation from the Spanish colonial centers in Mexico and the Andes -- all contributed to the development of an autonomous and individualistic agrarian society. |
| With more than 2,000 dead, the 44-day Costa Rica Civil War resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in 20th-century Costa Rican history, but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military. |
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