On 7 August 2019, by Law 9658, the canton changed its previous name from Valverde Vega to Sarchí.[4]
Historyedit
Sarchí was created on 26 October 1949 by decree 766.[1] It was originally named Valverde Vega in honor of Dr. Carlos Luis Valverde Vega, a medic and founder of the Unión Médica Nacional (National Medical Union) after more than forty years of struggle. The members of the board that worked to create it were Samuel Alfaro Alpízar, Efraím Zamora Castro, Daube Alfaro Castro, Pedro Alfaro Zamora, Hebly Inkseter Soto, Otoniel Alfaro Alfaro, Elécer Pérez Conejo, who are known today as its founders. The canton was inaugurated on 1 January 1950.
Geographyedit
Sarchi is the cradle of the craft of Costa Rica and has many factories and shops that an important visit for touristsIn Toro Amarillo is the spectacular Toro's Waterfall with an exotic hotel designed by famed Arq. Ibo Bonilla
Sarchí has an area of 120.25 km2[5] and a mean elevation of 1,116 metres.[2]
The elongated canton lies between the Molino and Toro rivers on the northwest and the Sarchí River on the southeast. It reaches northward into a beautiful high valley of the Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) between the Poás and Platanar volcanoes.
Districtsedit
The canton of Sarchí is subdivided into the following districts:
^ abHernández, Hermógenes (1985). Costa Rica: evolución territorial y principales censos de población 1502 - 1984 (in Spanish) (1 ed.). San José: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia. pp. 164–173. ISBN9977-64-243-5. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
^ 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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