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Heredia is a canton in the Heredia province of Costa Rica.[1][2] The head city is in Heredia district, and is also the provincial capital of Heredia Province.
History
Heredia was created on 7 December 1848 by decree 167.[3]
Geography
Heredia has an area of 283.11 km2 (109.31 sq mi)[4] and a mean elevation of 1,242 m (4,075 ft).[1]
The canton includes the areas south and west of the capital city of Heredia as far as the Virilla River and the National Route 1.
According to Costa Rica's Municipal Code, mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton.[5] As of the latest municipal elections in 2024, the National Liberation Party candidate, Ángela Ileana Aguilar Vargas, was elected mayor of the canton with 31.58% of the votes, with Víctor Andrés Sánchez González and Kenneth Armando Arguedas Navarro as first and second vice mayors, respectively.[6]
Like the mayor and vice mayors, members of the Municipal Council (called regidores) are elected every four years. Heredia's Municipal Council has 9 seats for regidores and their substitutes, who can participate in meetings but not vote unless the owning regidor (regidor propietario) is absent.[5] The current president of the Municipal Council is the Sentir Heredia regidor, José Pablo Quesada Castro, with National Liberation Party member, Heidy Hernández Benavides, as vice president.[8] The Municipal Council's composition for the 2024–2028 period is as follows:
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[10] Centro Centroamericano de Población[11]
In 2022, the National Institute of Statistics and Census estimated Heredia's population at 131,901,[12] up from 123,616 at the time of the 2011 census.[13]
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