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Cañas (canton)

Canton in Guanacaste province, Costa Rica

Canton in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Cañas canton

10°26′45″N 85°05′57″W / 10.4457066°N 85.0991768°W / 10.4457066; -85.0991768Country

Costa RicaProvinceGuanacasteCreation12 July 1878^[1]Head cityCañas Districts

Districts

Cañas
Palmira
San Miguel
Bebedero
Porozal

Government

• TypeMunicipality • BodyMunicipalidad de CañasArea

• Total682.2 km² (263.4 sq mi)Elevation

86 m (282 ft)Population

(2011)

• Total26,201 • Density38/km² (99/sq mi)Time zoneUTC−06:00Canton code506Websitewww.municanas.go.cr

Cañas is a canton in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.^[2]^[3] The head city is in Cañas district.

History

Cañas was created on 12 July 1878 by decree 22.^[1]

Geography

Cañas has an area of 682.2 km²^[4] and a mean elevation of 86 metres.^[2] The elongated canton touches the Tempisque River in the southwest. It keeps the Bebedero River and Tenorio River on its western boundary as it widens to encompass agricultural lowlands before climbing into the Cordillera de Guanacaste up to the Tenorio Volcano.

Districts

The canton of Cañas is subdivided into the following districts:

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1883	595	—
1892	2,165	263.9%
1927	3,500	61.7%
1950	5,929	69.4%
1963	9,117	53.8%
1973	12,779	40.2%
1984	17,284	35.3%
2000	24,076	39.3%
2011	26,201	8.8%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos^[5] Centro Centroamericano de Población^[6]

For the 2011 census, Cañas had a population of 26,201 inhabitants. ^[7]

Transportation

Road transportation

The canton is covered by the following road routes:

National Route 1
National Route 6
National Route 18
National Route 142
National Route 923
National Route 925
National Route 927
National Route 930

References

^ ^a ^b Hernández, Hermógenes (1985). Costa Rica: evolución territorial y principales censos de población 1502 - 1984 (in Spanish) (1 ed.). San José: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia. pp. 164–173. ISBN 9977-64-243-5. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
^ ^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.
^ 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). Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. 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.