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1 History  





2 Provincial organization  





3 Cantonal organization  





4 District organization  





5 Other subdivisions  





6 Indigenous Territories  





7 References  





8 External links  














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provinces, cantons, districts of Costa Rica

According to the Political Constitution of Costa Rica of 1949, in article 168,[1] the territorial division of Costa Rica is organized by law into three types of subnational entity:

For the purposes of the Public Administration, the national territory is divided into provinces, these in cantons and cantons in districts.

Costa Rica is divided into:

The most recent decree to this subdivision corresponds to N°41548-MGP from 28 January 2019. [2]

All entities are numbered, the provinces get 1 digit, the cantons 3 digit with the first being the number of the province, the districts get 5 digits with the first 3 being the numbers of the canton.

The district numbers are also used as postal codes.

History

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With the establishment of the republic and the declaration of Costa Rica as "free, sovereign and independent republic," the Political Constitution of the Reformed Costa Rica of 1848 was approved on November 30 Of that year, and according to Law No. 36 of December 7 of 1848, the denominations of province, canton & district.[3] According to the aforementioned law, the following provinces were created:

This law classified Puntarenas as county, a category that is now in disuse. Legislative Decree No. 10 of September 17, 1858 gives Puntarenas the title of province.

Decree No. 27 of June 6, 1870 created the『County of Limón』from the easternmost territory of the Province of Carthage, and allowed the establishment of a town hall. It would not be until 1902, under Legislative Decree No. 59 of August 1 that it was constituted in the seventh and last of the provinces that comprise the national territory.

From 1848 to 1980 the number of cantons in the country has gone from 10 to 82. The last canton to be constituted is the Rio Cuarto ancient district of Greece province of Alajuela. The districts, on the other hand, have experienced greater flexibility in their constitution process, so their numbers are constantly changing. For example, there are now 470 districts, when in 2000, when the population census was conducted the districts were 463.

Provincial organization

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Politically and administratively, Costa Rica is made up of 7 provinces:

Provincias de Costa Rica
Province ISO 3166-2[4] Capital Cantons Districts Inhabitants[5] Area km2
San José CR-SJ San José 20 123 1 404 242 4 965.90
Alajuela CR-A Alajuela 15 116 848 146 9 757.53
Cartago CR-C Cartago 8 51 490 903 3 124.67
Heredia CR-H Heredia 10 47 433 677 2 656.98
Guanacaste CR-G Liberia 11 61 326 953 10 140.71
Puntarenas CR-P Puntarenas 11 60 410 929 11 265.69
Limón CR-L Limón 6 30 386 862 9 188.52
TOTALS 81 488 4 301 712 51 100

Cantonal organization

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The concept of City HallorCity Council falls to the second-level sub-national entity (the cantons), governed by a mayor elected every four years in general elections, as well as a Municipal Council (Municipal regime of Costa Rica). According to the Political Constitution, article 169:[1]

"The administration of the local interests and services in each canton will be in charge of the Municipal Government, formed of a deliberative body, composed of municipal councilors of popular election, and of an executive officer who will designate the law."

District organization

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Each canton is divided into districts whose number varies from canton to canton. Each district has a District Council chaired by a syndic, all popularly elected. The District Council is the interlocutor between the district and the municipal government and ensures the communal and neighborhood interests before the Municipal Council, although the direct administration of the district falls to the municipality, the District Councils also exercise administrative functions such as forwarding projects To the Council and supervise the work of the mayor.

Each district in Costa Rica has a unique five digit administrate division code that is also used as an identifier by the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica and corresponds to the postal code.

Other subdivisions

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According to the Administrative Territorial Division (Spanish: División Territorial Administrativa)[2] the following subdivisions are applicable at or below canton and district level:

Indigenous Territories

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In Costa Rica there are 24 indigenous territories duly delimited by the central government and have limited autonomy. These territories are administered by the Associations of Indigenous Development like a local government according to Decree No. 13568-G of the Executive Power.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Political Constitution of the Republic Of Costa Rica". Archived from the original on 2017-06-17. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  • ^ a b "Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República N°41548-MGP". Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  • ^ "Political Constitution of the Republic of Costa Rica, 1848: From the territory of Costa Rica" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-17. Retrieved 2017-06-19.
  • ^ Statoids.com (ed.). "Provinces of Costa Rica". Archived from the original on January 1, 2004. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  • ^ http://www.inec.go.cr/A/MS/Censos/Censo%202011/Creations%20preliminares/15.%20Results%20Generales%20Censo%202011.pdf[permanent dead link]
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