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ICE was founded on 8 April 1949 by Decree-Law No. 449, after the Costa Rican Civil War of 1948, in order to solve the problems of power shortages that occurred in Costa Rica in the 1940s. Since 1963, ICE provides telecommunications services throughout the country. The attempts to reform ICE throughout a set of laws in the years 1999 and 2000 ...
Communications service provider: Grupo ICE, government monopoly. [citation needed] Calling code: +506; International call prefix: 00; Main lines: 1.0 million lines in use, 75th in the world (2012). Mobile cellular: 6.2 million lines, 100th in the world (2012).
Coordinates: 83°17′44″W. The El Diquís Hydroelectric Project (known as the PHED for its Spanish acronym) is a cancelled hydroelectric dam project, designed by the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE, the Costa Rican Electricity Institute). Possible construction site PH el Diquís. The dam was to be located on the Térraba River ...
Churchill made up of ice, syrup, condensed milk, powder milk, ice cream, tamarind, fruit, cake filling. Churchill is a very popular snow cone from Costa Rica. [1] The first Churchills were served in the city of Puntarenas. According to tradition, in the 1940s there was a local businessman named Joaquín Agüilar Ezquivel, aka "Quinico", who ...
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría (born 9 January 1940) is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman and politician who served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002. [1] He was minister of planning from 1968 to 1970 and minister of the presidency in 1970 during the administration of Jose Joaquin Trejos Fernandez (1966 - 1970 ...
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Beginning on the night (UTC-6:00) of April 17, 2022, a ransomware attack began against nearly 30 institutions of the government of Costa Rica, including its Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), the National Meteorological Institute, state internet service provider RACSA, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de ...
The Irazú volcano is a complex volcanic shield. It is the highest active volcano in Costa Rica, and has an area of 500 km 2 (190 sq mi). It has an irregular subconic shape, and temperatures at its summit vary between 3 and 17 °C (37 and 63 °F), with a record low of −3 °C (26.6 °F) [5] and a record high of 23.2 °C (73.4 °F). [6]