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Municipalities are the second-level administration in Costa Rica after the central government. Each one of the 82 cantons of Costa Rica has a Municipality or Municipal Government constituted by a mayor and a proportional number of members of the Municipal Council. Districts of each of the cantons also have their local authorities and ...
With the establishment of the republic and the declaration of Costa Rica as "free, sovereign and independent republic," the Political Constitution of the Reformed Costa Rica of 1848 was approved on 30 November Of that year, and according to Law No. 36 of 7 December 1848, the denominations of province, canton & district. [3]
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]
According to the Executive Decree N°41548-MGP (Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República), a city in Costa Rica is a ceremonial title awarded to a district or districts which contain the administrative center regardless of factors such as population, population density, or economic indicators.
Municipal elections were held in Costa Rica on 7 February 2016, in order to elect the mayors of the 81 cantons [2] of the country plus a proportional number of aldermen in each of the canton's municipal councils, a syndic for every district and members of the District Councils and a total of 8 Intendants for districts and islands located too far away from the administrative center.
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, Juan Diego González Picado, was elected mayor of the canton with 33.09% of the votes, with Pilar Porras Zúñiga and Diana Murillo Murillo as first and second vice mayors, respectively.
Costa Rica portal ^ 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 .
San Pablo has an area of 7.53 km 2 [4] and a mean elevation of 1,168 metres. [2]The canton is in the foothills southeast of the provincial capital city of Heredia, with the Bermúdez River as the southeast boundary and the Pirro River delineating the farthest portion of the northwestern border.