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San José (Spanish: [saŋ xoˈse]; meaning "Saint Joseph") is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and the capital of San José Province. It is in the center of the country, in the mid-west of the Central Valley, within San José Canton.
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San José es la capital de la República de Costa Rica y la cabecera de la provincia homónima. Ubicada en el centro del país, específicamente sobre la meseta intervolcánica llamada Valle Central, y contenida en su totalidad por el cantón homónimo.
San José is the capital of Costa Rica, head of San José Province, and the nation's largest city. It is named in honor of Saint Joseph. It is in the center of the Gran Area Metropolitana (metropolitan area) of the Central Valley. San José is the center of political and economic activity and the main transportation center of Costa Rica.
San José, capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Situated in the broad, fertile Valle Central 3,800 feet (1,160 metres) above sea level, it was called Villa Nueva when it was settled in 1736. San José developed slowly as a tobacco centre in the Spanish colonial era.
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An estimated 352,381 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. [ 14 ] The sovereign state is a presidential republic. It has a long-standing and stable constitutional democracy and a highly educated workforce. [ 15 ]
San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. The undisputed cultural and economic center of Costa Rica's central valley, where most of the population lives, San José is also the most important transportation hub for domestic travel even though the international airport is in Alajuela.
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Desamparados is the 3rd canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 118.89 km 2 (45.90 sq mi), [1] and had a population of 223,226 in 2022, [2] making it the third most populated among the 81 cantons of Costa Rica.
