Tibás

Tibás
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Coordinates: 9.9574805°N 84.0810853°W / 9.9574805; -84.0810853
Country	Costa Rica
Province	San José
Creation	7 August 1868
Head city	San Juan
Districts	Districts San Juan Cinco Esquinas Anselmo Llorente León XIII Colima
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Body	Municipalidad de Tibás
• Mayor	José Alejandro Alvarado Vega (PLN)
Area
• Total	8.27 km^2 (3.19 sq mi)
Elevation	1,140 m (3,740 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	64,842
• Estimate  (2022)	74,592
• Density	7,800/km^2 (20,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Canton code	113
Website	www.munitibas.go.cr

Tibás is the thirteenth canton in the province of San José in Costa Rica.[1][2] The head city of the canton is San Juan.

History

Tibás was created on 26 June 1914 by decree 31.[2] It was formerly known as San Juan del Murciélago and was meant to be the capital of the country, at least according to ex-president Braulio Carrillo,[3] this is the reason the town was originally designed with such a neat array of perfectly aligned blocks, cut by the streets running from North to South and the avenues from East to West.

Geography

Tibás has an area of 8.27 km^2 (3.19 sq mi) and a mean elevation of 1,140 m (3,740 ft).[4][1]

The canton forms a northern suburb of the national capital city of San José. It is triangular in shape, with the Virilla River as its northern boundary. The Quebrada Rivera, a canyon, establishes the southwestern limit of the canton and also a portion of the southeastern boundary.

Government

Mayor

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, José Alejandro Alvarado Vega, was elected mayor of the canton with 37.17% of the votes, with Liliana María Beer Rodríguez and Olga Courrau Quesada as first and second vice mayors, respectively.[6]

Mayors of Tibás since the 2002 elections[7]

Period	Name	Party
2002–2006	Percy Kenneth Rodríguez Argüello	PUSC
2006–2010	Jorge Antonio Salas Bonilla	PAC
2010–2016	Gonzalo Vargas Jiménez	PLN
2016–2020	Carlos Luis Cascante Duarte
2020–2024
2024–2028	José Alejandro Alvarado Vega

Municipal Council

Like the mayor and vice mayors, members of the Municipal Council (called regidores) are elected every four years. Tibás' Municipal Council has 7 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 Social Democratic Progress Party regidor, Jimmy Villalta Espinoza.[8] The Municipal Council's composition for the 2024–2028 period is as follows:

Composition of the Municipal Council of Tibás after the 2024 municipal elections[9]

Political parties in the Municipal Council of Tibás
Political party			Regidores
			№	Owner	Substitute
	National Liberation Party (PLN)		3	Dora Alicia Rodríguez Rodríguez	Stephanie Patricia Blanco Rojas
				Jean Paul Porras Carvajal	Arturo Enrique Hernández Martínez
				Alejandra Ramón Sánchez	María del Milagro Chacón Zamora
	Social Democratic Progress Party (PSD)		2	Jimmy Villalta Espinoza^(P)	Juan Carlos Rodríguez Cruz
				Carmen Eugenia Sánchez Avila	Irene Patricia Segura Varela
	Social Christian Republican Party (PRSC)		1	Manuel René Barboza Chaves	Eduardo Emilio Umaña Álvarez
	Social Christian Unity Party (PUSC)		1	Vivian Roxana Acosta Bonilla	Inés Cristina Lascarez Solano

Districts

The canton of Tibás is subdivided into the following districts:

1. San Juan
2. Cinco Esquinas
3. Anselmo Llorente
4. León XIII
5. Colima

Demographics

Historical population

Census	Pop.	±% p.a.
1927	4,579	—
1950	10,594	+3.71%
1963	23,946	+6.47%
1973	35,602	+4.05%
1984	57,693	+4.49%
2000	72,074	+1.40%
2011	64,842	−0.96%
2022	74,592	+1.28%
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[10] Centro Centroamericano de Población[11]

Tibás had an estimated population of 74,592 people in 2022, up from 64,842 at the time of the 2011 census.[12][13]

Tibás had a Human Development Index of 0.766 in 2022.[14]

Tibás includes both industrial and residential neighborhoods and is home of a popular football team in Costa Rica, Deportivo Saprissa and its stadium Estadio Ricardo Saprissa.

Transportation

Road transportation

The canton is covered by the following road routes:

• National Route 5
• National Route 32
• National Route 100
• National Route 101
• National Route 102
• National Route 108
• National Route 117

Rail transportation

The Interurbano Line operated by Incofer goes through this canton.

References

1. "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.
2. División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica (PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional. 8 March 2017. ISBN 978-9977-58-477-5.
3. "Historia del Cantón de Tibás". Tibás. Retrieved 2015-09-04.
4. Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica (20 June 2024). "División Territorial Administrativa, 2024" [Administrative Territorial Division, 2024] (PDF) (in Spanish).
5. Asamblea Legislativa de la República de Costa Rica (13 May 2024). "Código Municipal" [Municipal Code]. Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (in Spanish).
6. Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (8 March 2024). "N.° 1658-E11-2024 - Declaratoria de elección de alcaldías y vicealcaldías de las municipalidades de los cantones de la provincia de San José, para el período comprendido entre el primero de mayo de dos mil veinticuatro y el treinta de abril de dos mil veintiocho" (in Spanish).
7. Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones. "Resoluciones declaratorias de elección". Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (in Spanish).
8. Municipalidad de Tibás (30 July 2024). "Perfiles de los Miembros del Concejo Municipal Período 2024-2028". Retrieved 20 September 2024.
9. Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (12 February 2024). "N.° 2218-E11-2024 - Declaratoria de elección de regidurías de las municipalidades de los cantones de la provincia de San José, para el período comprendido entre el primero de mayo de dos mil veinticuatro y el treinta de abril de dos mil veintiocho" (in Spanish).
10. "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
11. Centro Centroamericano de Población de la Universidad de Costa Rica. "Sistema de Consulta a Bases de Datos Estadísticas" (in Spanish).
12. Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (July 2023). Estimación de Población y Vivienda 2022 : Resultados Generales [2022 Population and Housing Estimate : General Results] (PDF) (in Spanish). ISBN 9789930525753.
13. "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.
14. Sistema Nacional de Información y Registro Único de Beneficiarios del Estado; Escuela de Estadística de la Universidad de Costa Rica; Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (9 June 2023). "Atlas de Desarrollo Humano Cantonal en Costa Rica, 2022".