San José, Costa Rica (cri)

San José, Costa Rica

San José, Costa Rica ranks 285th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Poznań, Montpellier, and Rostov-on-Don. Memorable people born in San José, Costa Rica include Laura Chinchilla, Abel Pacheco, and Franklin Chang Díaz. Memorable people who died in San José, Costa Rica include José Figueres Ferrer, Francisco Morazán, and Adolfo Díaz. San José, Costa Rica has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many politicians and soccer players. San José, Costa Rica is located in Costa Rica.

San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton. San José is Costa Rica's seat of national government, focal point of political and economic activity, and major transportation hub. San José Canton's population was 288,054 in 2011, and San José's municipal land area is 44.2 square kilometers, with an estimated 333,980 residents in 2015. Together with several other cantons of the central valley, including Alajuela, Heredia and Cartago, it forms the country's Greater Metropolitan Area, with an estimated population of over 2 million in 2017. The city is named in honor of Joseph of Nazareth. Read more on Wikipedia