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The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently, but Costa Rica had no university proper until 1940, when those four schools were re-united to establish the modern University of Costa Rica (UCR), during the reformist administration of President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia.
According to Costa Rica's Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. As of the latest municipal elections in 2024, the Let's Act Now Party (Partido Actuemos Ya) candidate, Mario Redondo Poveda, was elected mayor of the canton with 43.51% of the votes, with Silvia María Navarro Gómez and Marco Andrés Brenes Tinoco as first and second vice mayors ...
Desamparados is the 3rd canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica.The canton covers an area of 118.89 km 2 (45.90 sq mi), [1] and had a population of 223,226 in 2022, [2] making it the third most populated among the 81 cantons of Costa Rica.
Santa Ana is the ninth canton in the San José province of Costa Rica. [2] [3] It is located in the Central Valley . It borders with the Alajuela canton to the north, the Mora canton to the south and west, the Escazú canton to the east, as well as the Belén canton to the north east. [4]
It continues west and south between the Negro River on the north and the Jorco River on the east to encompass a large portion of the Coastal Mountain Range, ending at the border of Puntarenas Province near the Pacific coast in Parrita Canton. Districts. The canton of Acosta is subdivided into the following districts: San Ignacio; Guaitil; Palmichal
On 7 December 1848 Costa Rica divided its national territory into provinces, cantons, and districts. [7] The territory encompassing Nicoya, Bagaces, Santa Cruz, Guanacaste (modern day Liberia) and Cañas became part of the newly formed province of Guanacaste .
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