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Río Cuarto District

District in Río Cuarto canton, Alajuela province, Costa Rica

District in Alajuela, Costa Rica

10°19′06″N 84°13′24″W / 10.3183066°N 84.2232236°W / 10.3183066; -84.2232236Country

Costa RicaProvinceAlajuelaCantonRío CuartoCreation11 October 2018Elevation

430 m (1,410 ft)Population

(2011)

• Total11,074Time zoneUTC−06:00Postal code

21601

Río Cuarto is a district of the Río Cuarto canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica.^[1]^[2]

History

Río Cuarto was created on 11 October 2018 by Acuerdo Ejecutivo N°044-2018-MGP.^[2]

Geography

Río Cuarto has an area of km²^[3] and an elevation of 430 metres.^[1]

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1927	517	—
1950	1,216	135.2%
1963	2,116	74.0%
1973	2,840	34.2%
1984	3,341	17.6%
2000	7,744	131.8%
2011	11,074	43.0%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos^[4] Centro Centroamericano de Población^[5]

For the 2011 census, Río Cuarto had not been created, but in the records there was a population of 11,074 inhabitants. However, its inhabitants were part of Río Cuarto canton when it was a district of Grecia canton, and therefore this figure includes the population of the Santa Rita and Santa Isabel districts created in 2018.^[6]

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

National Route 140
National Route 708
National Route 744

References

^ ^a ^b "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.
^ ^a ^b 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.
^ "Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
^ "Sistema de Consulta de a Bases de Datos Estadísticas". Centro Centroamericano de Población (in Spanish).
^ "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.