El Guarco is a
canton in the
Cartago province of
Costa Rica
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.
The head city is in
Tejar district.
Toponymy
Named after
El Guarco
El Guarco was a Costa Rican indigenous king, at the time of the Spanish conquest. Its name is preserved in the eastern sector of the Central Valley of Costa Rica, where the city of Cartago is located, in the El Guarco canton in the Cartago Prov ...
, a
cacique
A ''cacique'' (Latin American ; ; feminine form: ''cacica'') was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, the indigenous inhabitants at European contact of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles. The term is a Spa ...
in the colonial era.
History
El Guarco was created on 26 July 1939 by decree 195.
Geography
El Guarco has an area of km²
and a mean elevation of metres.
El Guarco is an elongated canton that stretches southeast from its capital city to encompass a swatch of the
Cordillera de Talamanca
The Cordillera de Talamanca is a mountain range that lies in the southeast half of Costa Rica and the far west of Panama. Much of the range and the area around it is included in La Amistad International Park, which also is shared between the two ...
(Talamanca Mountain Range). The
Pan-American Highway
The Pan-American Highway (french: (Auto)route panaméricaine/transaméricaine; pt, Rodovia/Auto-estrada Pan-americana; es, Autopista/Carretera/Ruta Panamericana) is a network of roads stretching across the Americas and measuring about in to ...
, locally designated as
Route 2
The following highways are numbered 2. For roads numbered A2, see list of A2 roads. For roads numbered B2, see list of B2 roads. For roads numbered M2, see list of M2 roads. For roads numbered N2, see list of N2 roads.
International
* AH2, As ...
, delineates the canton's lengthy southwestern border.
Districts
The canton of El Guarco is subdivided into the following
districts
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:
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Tejar
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San Isidro
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Tobosi
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Patio de Agua
Demographics
For the
2011 census, El Guarco had a population of inhabitants.
Transportation
Road transportation
The canton is covered by the following road routes:
References
Cantons of Cartago Province
Populated places in Cartago Province
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