National Secondary Route 239, is a road in

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between

Ciudad Colón Colón, known as Ciudad Colón is a district and the head city of the Mora canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica. It is famous for its warm climate, proximity to nature and its surrounding mountains, folkloric traditions, horse riding, ...

, San José province and

Parrita Parrita is a canton and its only district in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica. Toponymy The origin of the name, it is said, has to do with a woman named Rita who lived in one of the original settlements. Rita had a business and received pa ...

, Puntarenas province. It is the main access road of the

Puriscal canton Puriscal is the 4th canton in the province of San José, Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is Santiago. Toponymy In Spanish, a is the flower of the common bean. A is a field of flowering beans. Geography Puriscal has an area of km ...

of San José province. From Puriscal to Parrita, the road is dirt and gravel.

Description

In San José province the route covers Puriscal canton (

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, Mercedes Sur,

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, Chires districts),

Mora Mora may refer to: People * Mora (surname) Places Sweden * Mora, Säter, Sweden * Mora, Sweden, the seat of Mora Municipality * Mora Municipality, Sweden United States * Mora, Louisiana, an unincorporated community * Mora, Minnesota, a city * M ...

canton ( Colón, Guayabo, Jaris,

Quitirrisí Quitirrisí is a Districts of Costa Rica, district of the Mora (canton), Mora canton, in the San José Province, San José province of Costa Rica. The district itself includes the Huetar language, Huetar Indigenous territories of Costa Rica, i ...

districts).

History

Received mayor improvements in 2019, where

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walls were constructed near Puriscal downtown to stabilize the sides of the road, similar work was done at Route 317. On October 4, 2019, the central government announced plans to invest CRC ₡7,083,000,000 to pave with asphalt the 51.89 km gravel road between Puriscal and Parrita, due to its importance as an alternative route from the Greater Metropolitan Area to the Pacific. For forty five years, a local committee asked for this work to be done. Works will start in April 2020, with the first 10 kilometers awarded to a private contractor. This route was severely damaged in November 2020 due to the indirect effects of

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References

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