La Garita District

La Garita
District
La Garita district
La Garita La Garita district location in Costa Rica
Coordinates: 11°04′17″N85°30′44″W / 11.071396°N 85.5121224°W / 11.071396; -85.5121224
Country	Costa Rica
Province	Guanacaste
Canton	La Cruz
Area
• Total	273.37 km2 (105.55 sq mi)
Elevation	300 m (1,000 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,688
• Density	6.2/km2 (16/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Postal code	51003

La Garita is a district of the La Cruz canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica. ^{[1] [2]} It is located in the north of the country, near the Nicaraguan border.

Geography

La Garita has an area of 273.37 km^{2 [3]} and an elevation of 300 metres. ^[1]

Villages

Administrative center of the district is the village of Garita.

Other villages in the district are Agua Muerta, Andes, Asilo, Cañita, Carmen, Fortuna, Guapinol, Innocentes, Lavaderos, Pochote, San Antonio and Tapezco.

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1973	1,279		—
1984	1,341		4.8%
2000	1,581		17.9%
2011	1,688		6.8%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos [4] Centro Centroamericano de Población [5]

For the 2011 census, La Garita had a population of 1,688 inhabitants. ^[6]

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

• National Route 4

References

1. "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.
2. 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.
3. "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.
4. "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
5. "Sistema de Consulta de a Bases de Datos Estadísticas". Centro Centroamericano de Población (in Spanish).
6. "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.