San Francisco de Dos Ríos | |
Settlement Type: | District |
Pushpin Map: | Costa Rica |
Pushpin Map Alt: | San Francisco de Dos Ríos district location in Costa Rica |
Pushpin Map Caption: | San Francisco de Dos Ríos district location in Costa Rica |
Coordinates: | 9.9083°N -84.0582°W |
Map Alt: | San Francisco de Dos Ríos district |
Established Title: | Creation |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | San José |
Subdivision Type2: | Canton |
Subdivision Name2: | San José |
Area Total Km2: | 2.64 |
Elevation M: | 1168 |
Population Total: | 20209 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 10106 |
San Francisco de Dos Ríos is the sixth district of the San José canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.[1] [2] It is one of the administrative units surrounding San José downtown (officially composed by the districts of El Carmen, Merced, Hospital and Catedral). The district is primarily residential and industrial. It's also famous for the numerous motels between its boundaries.
San Francisco de Dos Ríos has an area of km2[3] and an elevation of metres.
It lies on the south-east of the canton, between Curridabat and Desamparados cantons (bordering them to the east and to the south respectively) and between the districts of San Sebastián and Zapote (bordering them also to the west and to the north respectively).[4]
San Francisco de Dos Ríos district includes the "barrios" (or neighbourhoods) of Ahogados (part of it), Camelias, Cinco Esquinas, Coopeguaria, El Bosque, El Faro, Fátima, Hispano, San Marino Sur, I Griega, La Cabaña, Lincoln, Lomas de San Francisco, Maalot, Méndez, Pacífica, San Francisco de Dos Ríos (center), Sauces, Saucitos and Zurquí.
For the 2011 census, San Francisco de Dos Ríos had a population of inhabitants. [5]
The district is covered by the following road routes: