Bagaces is a
canton in the
Guanacaste province of
Costa Rica.
The head city is in
Bagaces
Bagaces is a district of the Bagaces canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.
Geography
Bagaces has an area of km² and an elevation of metres. Communities
The district includes the towns of Bagaces, Pijije, Montenegro, Montano, a ...
district.
History
Bagaces was created on 7 December 1848 by decree 167.
Bagaces is one of the oldest settlements in early Spanish conquest in the 1540s, where natives lived by a creek. It became an important town after 1601 when the "Mule Trail" was established communicating Cartago, the capital of the province, with Guatemala, the capital of the Captaincy General. Bagaces was a necessary night stop and later acquired fame because of its dry bisquist (Biscocho) and cheese (Queso Bagaces), an important supply for the long ride.
Geography
Bagaces has an area of km²
and a mean elevation of metres.
The Salto River on the west and Tenorio River on the east delineate this canton, with the Tempisque River as the southern border and the northern border high in the Cordillera de Guanacaste.
Miravalles Volcano
The Miravalles Volcano is an andesitic stratovolcano in Costa Rica. The caldera
A caldera ( ) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcano eruption. When large volumes of magma are e ...
sits near that border's midway point.
Districts
The canton of Bagaces is subdivided into the following
districts:
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Bagaces
Bagaces is a district of the Bagaces canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.
Geography
Bagaces has an area of km² and an elevation of metres. Communities
The district includes the towns of Bagaces, Pijije, Montenegro, Montano, a ...
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Fortuna
Fortuna ( la, Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at ...
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Mogote
A mogote () is a generally-isolated steep-sided residual hill in the tropics composed of either limestone, marble, or dolomite. Mogotes are surrounded by nearly flat alluvial plains. The hills typically have a rounded, tower-like form.
Overvi ...
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Río Naranjo
Demographics
For the
2011 census, Bagaces had a population of inhabitants.
Transportation
Road transportation
The canton is covered by the following road routes:
References
Cantons of Guanacaste Province
Populated places in Guanacaste Province
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