El Guarco (canton)

Coordinates: 9°43′52″N 83°54′30″W / 9.7310041°N 83.9083096°W / 9.7310041; -83.9083096
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El Guarco
Canton
Tejar
Districts
Districts
  • Patio de Agua
Government
 • TypeMunicipality
 • BodyMunicipalidad de El Guarco
Area
 • Total167.69 km2 (64.75 sq mi)
Elevation
1,526 m (5,007 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total41,793
 • Density250/km2 (650/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−06:00
Canton code308
Websitemuniguarco.go.cr

El Guarco is a

Tejar
district.

Toponymy

Named after El Guarco, a cacique in the colonial era.

History

El Guarco was created on 26 July 1939 by decree 195.[1]

Geography

El Guarco has an area of 167.69 km2[4] and a mean elevation of 1,526 metres.[2]

El Guarco is an elongated canton that stretches southeast from its capital city to encompass a swatch of the Cordillera de Talamanca (Talamanca Mountain Range). The Pan-American Highway, locally designated as Route 2, delineates the canton's lengthy southwestern border.

Districts

The canton of El Guarco is subdivided into the following districts:

  1. Tejar
  2. San Isidro
  3. Tobosi
  4. Patio de Agua

Demographics

Historical population
Census Pop. %±
2011
41,79323.7%

Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[5]
Centro Centroamericano de Población[6]

For the

2011 census, El Guarco had a population of 41,793 inhabitants.[7]

Transportation

Road transportation

The canton is covered by the following road routes:

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 9977-64-243-5
    . Retrieved 5 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República N°41548-MGP". Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (in Spanish). 19 March 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  3. ISBN 978-9977-58-477-5
    .
  4. ^ "Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
  6. ^ "Sistema de Consulta de a Bases de Datos Estadísticas". Centro Centroamericano de Población (in Spanish).
  7. ^ "Censo. 2011. Población total por zona y sexo, según provincia, cantón y distrito". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.


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