El Guarco is a
canton in the
Cartago province of
Costa Rica
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.
The head city is in
Tejar district.
Toponymy
Named after
El Guarco
El Guarco was a Costa Rican Indigenous king, at the time of the Spanish conquest. Its name is preserved in the eastern sector of the Central Valley of Costa Rica, where the city of Cartago is located, in the El Guarco canton in the Cartago Prov ...
, a
cacique
A cacique, sometimes spelled as cazique (; ; feminine form: ), was a tribal chieftain of the Taíno people, who were the Indigenous inhabitants of the Bahamas, the Greater Antilles, and the northern Lesser Antilles at the time of European cont ...
in the colonial era.
History
El Guarco was created on 26 July 1939 by decree 195.
Geography
El Guarco has an area of km
2 and a mean elevation of metres.
El Guarco is an elongated canton that stretches southeast from its capital city to encompass a swatch of the
Cordillera de Talamanca
The Cordillera de Talamanca is a mountain range that lies in the southeast half of Costa Rica and the far west of Panama. Much of the range and the area around it is included in La Amistad International Park, which also is shared between the two ...
(Talamanca Mountain Range). The
Pan-American Highway
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, locally designated as
Route 2, delineates the canton's lengthy southwestern border.
Districts
The canton of El Guarco is subdivided into the following
districts
A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...
:
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Tejar
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San Isidro
#
Tobosi
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Patio de Agua
Demographics
For the
2011 census, El Guarco had a population of inhabitants.
Transportation
Road transportation
The canton is covered by the following road routes:
References
Cantons of Cartago Province
Populated places in Cartago Province
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