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Some countries name their currency to honor people famous in their history: bolivar (Venezuela) for the liberator of South America, Simón Bolívar; sucre (Ecuador) for Antonio José de Sucre, chief lieutenant of Bolívar and liberator of what is now Ecuador at the battle of Pichincha in 1822 near Quito; colón (Costa Rica, El Salvador) for Christopher Columbus; balboa (Panama) for Vasco Núñez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean; lempira (Honduras) for the 16th-century Indian chief who is a national symbol of liberty and valor for resisting the Spanish advance; and córdoba (Nicaragua) for Francisco Hernández de Cór doba, first acting governor.
The membrane was blocked with 5% nonfat milk in 50 M Tris-HCl/150 M NaCl, pH 7.5, and sequentially treated with affinity-purified rabbit antisera raised against recombinant mactinin, followed by second antibody conjugated with alkaline phosphatase (ICN, Costa Mesa, CA).
But before any of these were the Costa Blanca’s first inhabitants: Known as Neanderthal men, they lived primitively and spent a large part of their time hunting.
Once dedicated to fishing and agriculture, Torrox-Costa is now an expanding resort with extensive Roman ruins.
Today, some of these may be seen in the Museo Arqueológico de la Costa Grande in Zihuatanejo.