San Ramón District, La Unión

San Ramón is a district of the La Unión canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.[1][2]

San Ramón
District
San Ramón district
San Ramón San Ramón district location in Costa Rica
Coordinates: 9.9372874°N 83.9886681°W
Country	Costa Rica
Province	Cartago
Canton	La Unión
Area
• Total	3.47 km^2 (1.34 sq mi)
Elevation	1,440 m (4,720 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	4,054
• Density	1,200/km^2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Postal code	30307

Geography

San Ramón has an area of 3.47 km²[3] and an elevation of 1,440 metres.[1]

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.		%±
1883	128		—
1892	316		146.9%
1927	231		−26.9%
1950	512		121.6%
1963	1,191		132.6%
1973	1,805		51.6%
1984	2,505		38.8%
2000	4,640		85.2%
2011	4,054		−12.6%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[4] Centro Centroamericano de Población[5]

For the 2011 census, San Ramón had a population of 4,054 inhabitants. [6]

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

• National Route 202

Economy

One of its main economic activities is the plantation of cypress, used as Christmas trees in Costa Rica. Along with its immediate neighbors San Rafael District and Mata de Plátano District, it forms one of the main cypress production areas in all the Costa Rican Central Region.[7]

References

1. "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.
2. 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.
3. "Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.
4. "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
5. "Sistema de Consulta de a Bases de Datos Estadísticas". Centro Centroamericano de Población (in Spanish).
6. "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.
7. "Árboles de navidad: Estado de la reforestación en Costa Rica" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2020.