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Heredia ( Spanish pronunciation: [eˈɾeðja]) is a district in the Heredia canton of Heredia province, Costa Rica. As the seat of the municipality of Heredia canton, it is awarded the status of city, and by virtue of being the city of the first canton, it is the Province Capital of Heredia province as well. [ 1][ 2] It is 10 kilometers to the ...
Heredia Province. / 10.417°N 84.000°W / 10.417; -84.000. Heredia ( Spanish pronunciation: [eˈɾeðja]) is a province of Costa Rica. It is in the north-central part of the country. As a result, the province covers areas as diverse as the agriculture-rich Northern plains to the more metropolitan areas such as the city of Heredia in the ...
Before 1994, all phone numbers in Costa Rica were six digits long. The Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad, which at that time had the monopoly on telecommunications, introduced a system in which the telephone numbers in every province were assigned a prefix to make them 7 digits long. This numbering system was effective for some time.
Heredia has an area of 283.11 km 2 (109.31 sq mi) [4] and a mean elevation of 1,242 m (4,075 ft). [1] The canton includes the areas south and west of the capital city of Heredia as far as the Virilla River and the National Route 1. The non-contiguous district of Varablanca, that includes a large portion of Braulio Carrillo National Park high in ...
San Francisco district. San Francisco. San Francisco district location in Costa Rica. Coordinates: 9°59′08″N 84°08′13″W / . 9.9855772°N 84.1368109°W. / 9.9855772; -84.1368109. Country. Costa Rica.
Belén is the seventh canton in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. [ 2][ 3] The head city is in San Antonio district. It is part of the Greater Metropolitan Area, where the housing area constitutes at least 25% of the canton's surface. It limits to the north and west with the canton of Alajuela, to the east with Flores and Heredia, and to the ...
San Isidro (canton) / 10.0298852; -84.0431476. San Isidro, also referred to as San Isidro de Heredia, [2] is a canton in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. [3] [4] The head city is in San Isidro district.
The Constitution of Costa Rica states, "For Public Administration purposes, the national territory is divided into provinces, these into cantons and cantons into districts." The country consists of 7 provinces ( provincias ), 84 cantons ( cantones ), and 489 districts ( distritos ). [ 2]