1. costa - Noun
2. Costa - Proper noun
A rib of an animal or a human being.
A rib or vein of a leaf, especially the midrib.
The anterior rib in the wing of an insect.
One of the riblike longitudinal ridges on the exterior of many corals.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNo one thinks of Mexico and Peru as black. But Mexico and Peru together got 700,000 Africans in the slave trade. The coast of Acapulco was a black city in the 1870s. And the Veracruz Coast on the gulf of Mexico and the Costa Chica, south of Acapulco are traditional black lands. Henry Louis Gates
Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides. Laura Chinchilla
I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. Tim Vine
(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!? Bruce Dickinson
I don't want a fortnight on the Costa del Sol Don't wanna go to Bognor - it's a plague-ridden hole and it don't fit in with my ideology... Down the Adriatic to the Vlora bay Twenty pints of Fosters and I'm away 'Cos now I know just where I wanna be: Albania - that's the place for me! Attila the Stockbroker
External link to Wikipedia page on Costa Rica for further reading. Costa Rican Proverb