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San Roque district location in Costa Rica. Coordinates: ... San Roque is a district of the Barva canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. Geography.
San Roque district location in Costa Rica. Coordinates: ... San Roque is a district of the Grecia canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] Geography.
Barva was first mentioned as a canton in a decree dated December 7, 1848. The territory that today corresponds to the canton was part of the Western Huetar Kingdom, where the cacique named Barbak had his settlement, whose name was extended to the region between the Virilla River and the mountains of "Monte de Aguacate", which was called Barva (Valle de Barva).
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.
Postal codes in Costa Rica are five-digit numeric, and were introduced in March 2007; they are associated with and identify a unique district. The first digit denotes one of the seven provinces, the 2nd and 3rd refer to the 82 cantons (unique within the province), the 4th and 5th the 488 districts (unique within the canton). [2]
Alajuela has an area of 391.62 km 2 (151.21 sq mi) [3] and a mean elevation of 942 m (3,091 ft). [1]Northward from the city of Alajuela, the canton continues along the border with the province of Heredia to its east, encompassing a strip of the Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) between Poas Volcano and Barva Volcano.
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One recounts how the church was donated by some foreign country, and sent to Greece as a gift, but was wrongly shipped to Grecia, Costa Rica. Another legend states that the final destination of the church was the city of Punta Arenas in Chile but was disembarked, by mistake, in the port of Puntarenas , Costa Rica, and later sent to the city of ...