La Colonia, Pococí

La Colonia is the name of the district number 7 of the canton of Pococí, which in turn belongs to the province of Limón Province in Costa Rica.

San Rafael
District
San Rafael
Coordinates: 10°12′58″N 83°47′33″W
Country Costa Rica
ProvinceLimon
CantonPococí
Area
 • Total40 km2 (20 sq mi)
Elevation
180 m (590 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total6,007
 • Density150/km2 (390/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−06:00
ZIP codes
70207

Location

It is located in the central Caribbean region and borders the districts of Jiménez to the east and Guápiles to the south, to the west and to the north.

Its head, the village of San Rafael, is located 6 km (12 minutes) to the NW of Guápiles and 68.7 km (1 hours 33 minutes) to the NE of San José the capital of the nation.

Geography

La Colonia has an area of 40 km ², which makes it the smallest district of the canton by surface.

It presents a flat landscape in the totality of its territory, with an average altitude of 5 meters on the level of the sea.

Demography

The district has 6,007 inhabitants.[1]

The 8 population centers that make up the district are:

  • San Rafael (head of the district)
  • Brisas del Toro Amarillo
  • Cascada
  • La Victoria
  • Losilla
  • San Bosco
  • Santa Elena
  • Prado (Parte)
gollark: > The impact generated an unexpectedly large and bright dust cloud, obscuring the view of the impact crater. according to the Wikipedia article.
gollark: What are you claiming was predicted about this?
gollark: Oh, some comet mission, the SOMETHINGTH result.
gollark: He... predicted... a disaster movie... using an insane-seeming theory of electromagnetism?
gollark: > Deep Impact is a 1998 American science-fiction disaster film directed by Mimi Leder, written by Bruce Joel Rubin and Michael Tolkin, and starring Robert Duvall, Téa Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, and Morgan Freeman. Steven Spielberg served as an executive producer of this film.

See also

References
  1. "2011 Census Population Report" (PDF). INEC. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2017-08-07. Retrieved 2017-08-10.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.