Places of Interest: Pérez Zeledón

June 2, 2010 | Posted by admin

This time is the turn of Pérez Zeledón, a canton located to the south of our country and It is commonly called “La Zona Sur”, even its soccer local team is called “Los Guerreros del Sur” although that is not the team´s  official name .

The info

Pérez Zeledón is the name of the 19th canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 1,905.51 km² [1], making it the seventh largest of the 81 cantons in the country. It has a population of 130,982 [2]. The capital city of the canton is San Isidro de El General.
The canton’s boundaries are established by the Río Savegre on the northwest, the Río Guabo and a series of coastal mountain ranges on the southwest and south, and the peaks of the highest mountains of the Cordillera de Talamanca (Talamanca Mountain Range) on the east. In the middle of the canton, the Río General, from which the canton’s capital city takes its name, runs north to south through a beautiful valley.
The canton of Pérez Zeledón is subdivided into 11 distritos (districts).
1. San Isidro de El General
2. General
3. Daniel Flores
4. Rivas
5. San Pedro
6. Platanares
7. Pejibaye
8. Cajón
9. Barú
10. Río Nuevo
11. Páramo

Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9rez_Zeled%C3%B3n

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