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Buenavista, San Carlos

Buenavista
District
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Buenavista district
Buenavista district location in Costa Rica
Buenavista district location in Costa Rica
Buenavista
Buenavista district location in Costa Rica
Coordinates: 10°16′54″N 84°28′32″W / 10.2817426°N 84.4756115°W / 10.2817426; -84.4756115
Country Costa Rica
ProvinceAlajuela
CantonSan Carlos
Area
 • Total
25.98 km2 (10.03 sq mi)
Elevation
865 m (2,838 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total
325
 • Density13/km2 (32/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−06:00
Postal code
21003

Buenavista is a district of the San Carlos canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica.[1][2]

Geography

Buenavista has an area of 25.98 km2[3] which makes it the smallest district in the canton by area, and an elevation of 865 metres with a range between 500 and 900 meters above sea level.[1]

It is located in the northern region of the country and borders with 2 districts; Florencia to the N / NO, Quesada to the N / NE. While to the south it borders with the canton of Zarcero.

Its head, the town of Buenavista, is located 13.3 km (35 minutes) to the NW of Ciudad Quesada and 94.9 km (2 hours 37 minutes) to the NW of San Jose, the nation's capital.

The grounds of Buenavista are distinguished by being very broken, with a type of steep soil and steep slopes.

Economy

This is a special place for dairy farming.

It also has a health post and a school and only a grocery store.

It has very little infrastructure, the majority are houses of room.

Through the installation of a hydroelectric project, the community managed to increase its economic and communal development.

Thanks to the construction of the new San Carlos-San Ramón highway, Buena Vista will become a more crowded region.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.±% p.a.
1927641—    
1950725+0.54%
1963351−5.43%
1973255−3.14%
1984289+1.14%
2000352+1.24%
2011325−0.72%
2022517+4.31%
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[4]
Centro Centroamericano de Población[5]

For the 2011 census, Buenavista had a population of 325 inhabitants.[6] Buenavista is one of the districts with the lowest number of inhabitants of the country, it has about 325 inhabitants.[7]

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica (PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional. 8 March 2017. ISBN 978-9977-58-477-5.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
  5. ^ Centro Centroamericano de Población de la Universidad de Costa Rica. "Sistema de Consulta a Bases de Datos Estadísticas" (in Spanish).
  6. ^ "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.
  7. ^ "2011 Census Population Report" (PDF). INEC. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2017-08-07. Retrieved 2017-08-09.


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