When Emeterio Rafael Alejandro Castro Blanco was born on 3 March 1897, in San Pedro, Sarchí, Alajuela, Costa Rica, his father, Ramón Lino Castro Murillo, was 43 and his mother, Apolinaria de Jesus Blanco Fernandez, was 35. He married Josefa Benedicta de Jesús Solís Marín on 7 June 1924, in Zarcero, Alajuela, Costa Rica. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 7 January 1967, in Quesada, San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica, at the age of 69.
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San Pedro fue creado el 14 de diciembre de 1964 .
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Manuel, Carlos, Luis, Jesus, Jorge, Miguel, Francisco, Mario, Pedro, Raul. Portuguese Joao, Paulo, Ligia, Vasco, Wenceslao, Armanda, Fernandes.
Galician, Portuguese, and Jewish (Sephardic): topographic name from castro ‘castle, fortress’ (from Latin castrum ‘fort, Roman walled city’), or a habitational name from any of various places called with this word. See also De Castro .
Italian and Jewish (from Italy): topographic name for someone who lived by a fortification, from castro ‘fortification’ (see 1 above) or a habitational name for someone from the town of Castro, the center of a Duchy in Lazio (destroyed after its occupation by Papal military forces in 1649). Compare Lo Castro .
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