- Santa Bárbara Canton
Santa Bárbara is the name of the fourth canton in the province of Heredia in
Costa Rica . The canton covers an area of 53.21 km² [Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), 2001.] , and has a population of 31,152 [Estimates of Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC), May 2003.] . The capital city of the canton is also called Santa Bárbara.The elongated canton begins midway between the cities of
Alajuela andHeredia , where the Río Segundo marks its southern boundary. It climbs through foothills northward to the Río Desengaño high in the Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range).The canton of Santa Bárbara is subdivided into 6 distritos (districts).
# Santa Bárbara
# San Pedro
# San Juan
# Jesús
# Santo Domingo
# PurabáHistory
The canton was established by a government resolution of October 3, 1855.
Prominent figures
Thomas Thompson, owner of Los Patitos and the Arc garden.Laurel Anderson, local artist and owner of Laurel's Originals.
References
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