Sabanilla District, Montes de Oca

Sabanilla is a district of the Montes de Oca canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.^[1][2]

Sabanilla
District
Wood house in Sabanilla.
Sabanilla district
Sabanilla Sabanilla district location in Costa Rica
Coordinates: 9.9431284°N 84.0332456°W / 9.9431284; -84.0332456
Country	Costa Rica
Province	San José
Canton	Montes de Oca
Area
• Total	1.78 km2 (0.69 sq mi)
Elevation	1,305 m (4,281 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	10,775
• Density	6,100/km2 (16,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Postal code	11502

Toponymy

Sabanilla comes from the root word sabana, which translates as savanna and the diminutive suffix -illa, therefore the meaning becomes little savanna, a small area without a thick tree canopy.

History

By the end of the 19th century, finishes the construction of the Iglesia San Ramón Nonato, it was a work promoted by a visit to the coffee producing town by Monsignor Bernardo Augusto Thiel, second bishop of Costa Rica between 1880 and 1991.^[3]

On August 2, 1915, the Montes de Oca canton is founded by law decree 45, under the Alfredo González Flores administration.^[4] On April 24, 1977, Franz Hinkelammert established in Sabanilla the Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones (DEI), which is visited annually by many liberation theologians and community culture workers from all the Latin American region.

Geography

Sabanilla has an area of 1.78 km^2[5] and an elevation of 1,305 metres.^[1]

Locations

There are many residential projects completed:^[6]

• Barrio Arboledas
• Barrio Cedros
• Barrio Damiana
• Barrio El Rodeo
• Barrio Emmanuel
• Barrio Españolita
• Barrio Frutos Umaña
• Barrio La Familia
• Barrio Luciana
• Barrio Málaga
• Barrio Maravilla
• Barrio Marsella
• Barrio Paso Real
• Barrio Prado
• Barrio Rosales
• Barrio Sabanilla (downtown of the district)
• Barrio San Marino
• Barrio Toscana
• Barrio Tulin

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	±% p.a.
1927	1,194	—
1950	1,178	−0.06%
1963	2,447	+5.78%
1973	3,475	+3.57%
1984	6,762	+6.24%
2000	11,324	+3.28%
2011	10,775	−0.45%
2022	11,712	+0.76%
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[7] Centro Centroamericano de Población[8]

For the 2011 census, Sabanilla had a population of 10,775 inhabitants. ^[9]

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

• National Route 202
• National Route 203

References

• Costa Rica portal

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. "Historia de la Parroquia". Retrieved 5 October 2019.
4. "Historia de Montes de Oca".
5. "Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.
6. Ministerio de Hacienda. "Mapa de Valores del Terreno por Zonas Homogéneas" (PDF).
7. "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
8. Centro Centroamericano de Población de la Universidad de Costa Rica. "Sistema de Consulta a Bases de Datos Estadísticas" (in Spanish).
9. "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.