Cariño

Cariño is a municipality in the province of A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain. It is situated in the north of the province. It is located on the ría de Ortigueira (Ortigueira tidal inlet). Cariño has a population of 4,617 inhabitants (INE, 2008).

Cariño and Cedeira's coast has some of the highest cliffs in Europe.

Costa Rica

Coordinates: 10°N 84°W / 10°N 84°W / 10; -84

Costa Rica (ⁱ/ˌkoʊstə ˈriːkə/; Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈrika]; literally meaning, "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica (Spanish: República de Costa Rica), is a country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around 4.5 million, of whom nearly a quarter live in the metropolitan area of the capital and largest city, San José.

Costa Rica was sparsely inhabited by indigenous people before coming under Spanish rule in the 16th century. It remained a peripheral colony of the empire until independence as part of the short-lived First Mexican Empire, followed by membership in the United Provinces of Central America, from which it formally declared sovereignty in 1847. Since then, Costa Rica has remained among the most stable, prosperous, and progressive nations in Latin America. Following a brief but bloody civil war, it permanently abolished its army in 1949, becoming the first of only a few sovereign nations without a standing army.