Desamparados is the 3rd
canton in the province of
San José
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Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 118.26 km², and has a population of 206,708, making it the third most populated among the 81 cantons of Costa Rica. The capital city of the canton is also called
Desamparados.
The canton begins in the southern suburbs of the national capital city of San José, with the Río Tiribí marking its northern boundary. It snakes its way south in the shape of a backward ´S´, finally reaching its southern limit at the Río Tarrazú. It contains the bigger of the last
forest
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lungs in the metropolitan area of Costa Ricans capital, the Loma Salitral, which conservation issues have generated social conflicts between community environmentalist and immobiliary developers, as it is seen as an identity mark of the desamparadeño people and a very important infiltration area to prevent the frequents and disastrous floods in the district of Gravilias.
Urban areas claim 80.4% of the canton's population. Those under age 10 make up 19.8% of its inhabitants, while 5.1% are over 65.
Districts
The canton of Desamparados is subdivided into 13
districts
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(''distritos''):
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Desamparados
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San Miguel
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San Juan de Dios
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San Rafael Arriba
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San Antonio
("Cradle of Freedom")
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Frailes
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Patarrá
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San Cristóbal
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Rosario
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Damas
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San Rafael Abajo
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Gravilias
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Los Guido
History
The canton was established by a legislative decree of November 4, 1862.
Sports
The football soccer club
Orión F.C. de Desamparados plays here.
Demographics
For the
2011 census, Desamparados had a population of inhabitants.
Transportation
Road transportation
The canton is covered by the following road routes:
Notable people
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Máximo Fernández Alvarado
Máximo Fernández Alvarado (1858–1933) was a Costa Rican politician.
Born in Desamparados in 1858, he graduated as a Bachelor in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas at fourteen years old and as a lawyer in the same ins ...
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Joaquín Garcia Monge
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Joel Campbell
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Roy Miller
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Laura Chinchilla
Laura Chinchilla Miranda (; born 28 March 1959) is a Costa Rican politician who was President of Costa Rica from 2010 to 2014. She was one of Óscar Arias Sánchez's two Vice-Presidents and his administration's Minister of Justice. She was ...
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Jorge Alejandro Castro
References
Cantons of San José Province
1862 establishments in Costa Rica
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