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Heredia (Spanish pronunciation:) is a province of Costa Rica. It is in the north-central part of the country. 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 Central Valley.
La Selva Biological Station is a protected area encompassing 1,536 ha of low-land tropical rain forest in northeastern Costa Rica.It is owned and operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies, [2] a consortium of universities and research institutions from the United States, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico. [3]
The valley is shared among the provinces of Alajuela, Heredia, San José and Cartago. The region occupies an area of 11,366 km 2 , more than a fifth of the country, and is drained by the Tárcoles River on the west side and by the Reventazón River on the east side.
Heredia (Spanish pronunciation:) 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.
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.
According to Costa Rica's Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton. [5] As of the latest municipal elections in 2024, the National Liberation Party candidate, Ángela Ileana Aguilar Vargas, was elected mayor of the canton with 31.58% of the votes, with Víctor Andrés Sánchez González and Kenneth Armando Arguedas Navarro as first and second vice ...
San Isidro is a district of the San Isidro canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] Geography. San Isidro has an area of 2.66 km ...
Province HDI (2022) Very high human development 1 Heredia: 0.833 2 San José: 0.824 – Costa Rica (average) 0.806: 3 Cartago: 0.803 4 Alajuela: 0.800 High human development 5 Guanacaste: 0.790 6 Puntarenas: 0.783 7 Limón: 0.765