El Guarco (canton)

El Guarco
Canton
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El Guarco canton
El Guarco El Guarco canton location in Costa Rica
Coordinates: 9°43′52″N83°54′30″W / 9.7310041°N 83.9083096°W / 9.7310041; -83.9083096
Country	Costa Rica
Province	Cartago
Creation	26 July 1939 [1]
Head city	Tejar
Districts	Districts Tejar San Isidro Tobosi Patio de Agua
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Body	Municipalidad de El Guarco
Area
• Total	167.69 km2 (64.75 sq mi)
Elevation	1,526 m (5,007 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	41,793
• Density	250/km2 (650/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Canton code	308
Website	muniguarco.go.cr

El Guarco is a canton in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. ^{[2] [3]} The head city is in Tejar district.

Toponymy

Named after El Guarco, a cacique in the colonial era.

History

El Guarco was created on 26 July 1939 by decree 195. ^[1]

Geography

El Guarco has an area of 167.69 km² ^[4] and a mean elevation of 1,526 metres. ^[2]

El Guarco is an elongated canton that stretches southeast from its capital city to encompass a swatch of the Cordillera de Talamanca (Talamanca Mountain Range). The Pan-American Highway, locally designated as Route 2, delineates the canton's lengthy southwestern border.

Districts

The canton of El Guarco is subdivided into the following districts:

1. Tejar
2. San Isidro
3. Tobosi
4. Patio de Agua

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1950	6,385		—
1963	9,689		51.7%
1973	14,030		44.8%
1984	20,807		48.3%
2000	33,788		62.4%
2011	41,793		23.7%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos [5] Centro Centroamericano de Población [6]

For the 2011 census, El Guarco had a population of 41,793 inhabitants. ^[7]

Transportation

Road transportation

The canton is covered by the following road routes:

• National Route 2
• National Route 222
• National Route 226
• National Route 228
• National Route 236
• National Route 315
• National Route 406

References

1. Hernández, Hermógenes (1985). Costa Rica: evolución territorial y principales censos de población 1502 - 1984 (in Spanish) (1 ed.). San José: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia. pp. 164–173. ISBN   9977-64-243-5 . Retrieved 5 October 2020.
2. "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.
3. 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.
4. "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.
5. "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
6. "Sistema de Consulta de a Bases de Datos Estadísticas". Centro Centroamericano de Población (in Spanish).
7. "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.