Aserrí District Explained

Aserrí
Settlement Type:	District
Pushpin Map:	Costa Rica
Pushpin Map Alt:	Aserrí district location in Costa Rica
Pushpin Map Caption:	Aserrí district location in Costa Rica
Coordinates:	9.8537°N -84.1078°W
Map Alt:	Aserrí district
Established Title:	Creation
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	San José
Subdivision Type2:	Canton
Subdivision Name2:	Aserrí
Area Total Km2:	15.25
Elevation M:	1308
Population Total:	28191
Population As Of:	2011
Population Density Km2:	auto
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Postal Code:	10601

Aserrí is a district of the Aserrí canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.^{[1] [2]}

Name

Aserrí takes its name from a Huetar tribe, also called the Accerri.^{[3] [4]}

Geography

Aserrí has an area of km^2[5] and an elevation of metres.

Demographics

For the 2011 census, Aserrí had a population of inhabitants. ^[6]

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

• National Route 209
• National Route 217
• National Route 312

Notes and References

1. Web site: es . Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República N°41548-MGP . Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica . 26 September 2020 . 19 March 2019.
2. Book: es . División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica. 8 March 2017. Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional. 978-9977-58-477-5.
3. Quesada Pacheco, Miguel Ángel, Los huetares: historia, lengua, etnografía y tradición oral, Cartago, Editorializing Tecnológica, 1996.
4. Book: Clark . Patricia Roberts . Tribal Names of the Americas: Spelling Variants and Alternative Forms, Cross-Referenced . 21 October 2009 . McFarland . 978-0-7864-5169-2 . 11 . en.
5. Web site: es . Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo . Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos . 26 September 2020 . 24 October 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201024225203/https://www.inec.cr/anuario-estadistico/anuario-estadistico-geografia . dead .
6. Web site: es . Censo. 2011. Población total por zona y sexo, según provincia, cantón y distrito . Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos . 26 September 2020.