The town of San Joaquín de Flores is named after Saint Joachim, Mary's father.
Geographyedit
San Joaquín has an area of 2.58 km²[3] and an elevation of 1,054 metres.[1]
Communities and settlementsedit
San Joaquín de Flores District is further divided into smaller units called poblados (or communities) and barrios (or neighborhoods):
Santa Marta
Santísima Trinidad
Santa Cecilia
Llorente
Barrantes
Las Flores
Los Ángeles
Los Geranios
Echeverría
El Rosario
Cristo Rey
Corazón de Jesús
Important buildingsedit
Plaza Llorente San Joaquin
San Joaquín church was built about 1880. Every rock that is part of the church was carried from Cartago by cart, 87 km away along the current national Route 225. Families of San Joaquín donated the statues that today decorate the church gardens. The Spanish painter Jose Claro—who also made paintings for a church in San Antonio de Prado, near Medellín, Colombia—painted the images inside the church. It has also a cavern with a Lourdes Virgin and armchairs made of stone to sit down and view the garden flowers.
Educationedit
The official San Joaquin primary school is Escuela Estados Unidos de AmericaLiceo Regional de Flores and Colegio Tecnico are the two public high schools located in San Joaquin.
^ ab"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.
^División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica(PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional. 8 March 2017. ISBN978-9977-58-477-5.
^"Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^"Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
^"Sistema de Consulta de a Bases de Datos Estadísticas". Centro Centroamericano de Población (in Spanish).
^"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.
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