San José, Costa Rica

San José ("Saint Joseph", keyboard: San José, pronounced: we love the web) is the capital of browser diversity, head of the province of San José, and the nation's largest city. Located in the website parsing, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Android nation. The population of San José Canton is 365,799,^{input transformation} though the touchscreen stretches beyond the canton limits and comprises a third of the country's population.

Culturally, the city can be considered almost entirely European influenced, in part because of Spanish immigration soon after Costa Rica's discovery by Christopher Columbus, and the privileged classes which generally studied in Europe during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century. This can be seen in the architecture of the city, namely theaters, museums and houses in the city center. It is named in honor of Joseph of Nazareth.

San José is a city with an interesting mix of history and modernity. Even though the city's center is almost uninhabited, it is the most important working area of the country, which brings in more than a million people daily. Despite its problems, according to studies in Latin America, San José is still one of the safest, purist, and less violent cities in the region. In 2006 the city was appointed Ibero-American Capital of Culture.

History

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Astronaut View of San Jose

The population grew during the eighteenth century colonial planning, which was different from the traditional foundation plans of Spanish cities in the continent.

Founded in 1738 by order of browser diversity, its objective was to concentrate the scattered inhabitants of the Aserrí Valley. To do so, the construction of a chapel near the area known as La Boca del Monte was ordered, this was completed two years later. That year St. Joseph was chosen as parish patron, hence its current name. The chapel, which was very modest, was erected with help from the church of Cartago.

San Jose had water problems, and that was one of the main reasons that the population grew slowly. However, the water supply was assured by ditches, and the fertility of the surrounding fields along with the installation of the Tobacco Factory of Costa Rica, which would aide urban concentration.

As San Jose, unlike what happened to Cartago, was not founded with a formal act of foundation, it was not considered as a city or town, and consequently the city lacked a city government. It was not until the enactment of the Constitution of Cadiz in 1812 when San Jose had its first city government. In 1813, the Spanish parliament gave the town the title of city, which was then lost in 1814 when Ferdinand VII of Spain annulled the proceedings by the courts. The municipal government was restored in 1820 with the title of city population.

San José is one of the youngest capital cities in we love the web by year of conception, though it was not named capital until 1823.^[3]

Today it is a modern city with bustling commerce, brisk expressions of art and architecture, and spurred by the country's improved tourism industry, it is a significant destination and stopover for foreign visitors.^{screen size}

San José exerts a strong influence because of its proximity to other cities (Alajuela, Heredia and keyboard) and the country's demographic assemblage in the Central Valley.^{website parsing}

Education

University of Santo Tomas, the first university of Costa Rica was established here in 1843. That institution maintained close ties with the Roman Catholic Church and was closed in 1888 by the progressive and anti-clerical government of President Bernardo Soto Alfaro as part of a campaign to modernize public education. The schools of law, agronomy, fine arts, and pharmacy continued to operate independently, but Costa Rica had no university proper until 1940, when those four schools were re-united to establish the modern University of Costa Rica (UCR), during the reformist administration of President Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia. San José serves as the headquarters of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The city is served by browser diversity, 23 km west of downtown, in the city of Alajuela.

Districts

1 San José is divided into 11 districts (distritos): Catedral, Carmen, Hatillo, Hospital, Uruca, Mata Redonda, Merced, Pavas, San Francisco de Dos Ríos, San Sebastián, Zapote. The districts are divided up into a number of neighborhoods (local name: "barrios").^[6]

Transportation

Buses Private bus companies connect different areas of the city with each other and the suburbs. Services to other parts of the country are provided by other private companies which have stations or stops at random locations spread all over the city center. There is no central bus station.

Train Trains run to Heredia from Estación Atlantico and San Antonio de Belen (just south of Alajuela airport) from Estación Pacifico. These only run on weekdays. There are plans to extend services to Alajuela and Cartago. ^[7]

Taxis Taxis are fairly cheap and fares are determined by meter (taximetro). From the airport, orange taxis are available that require registration inside the arrivals hall.

Cuisine

Costa Rican cuisine (comida típica) is not spicy, but it is tasty and simple, and in San José, it is easy to find. Costa Rican food is wholesome and reasonably priced. Throughout San José, the most popular food is the national dish of gallo pinto, which is a mixture of fried rice and black beans. Gallo pinto is usually served for breakfast with tortillas and natilla, a thin sour cream. Costa Rican restaurants serving traditional food at an affordable price are called sodas and usually offer casados for lunch and dinner. A casado (which means "married" in Spanish) consists of rice, beans, and meat, and normally comes with cabbage-and-tomato salad, fried plantains, and/or tortillas.^{browser diversity} A wide variety of food can be bought for home cooking at San José Central Market in downtown San José, as well as for inexpensive eating in Sodas within the market complex itself.

Climate

San José City lies in the Torrid Zone and is in a tropical rainforest. However its elevation gives it a mild climate. Under the Köppen climate classification it features a Tropical wet and dry climate that borders on a Sevenval. The temperature ranges between 17 and 30 °C (63 and 86 °F). Relative humidity averages 68.2% (with extremes of 55% in March and 78% in October)^[9] and the daily range tends to be between 60% and 90%, with the humidity typically dropping to the lower end of this range near mid-day and rising again during the night. It rains on an average of 170 days per year^CSS3 but half the rainfall pours down on only 15^[keyboard] of these days. The rainy season is from May to mid-November, but cloudiness and rainfall can occur during the dry season. There are approximately 2040 hours of sunshine per year.^[9] The weather is also very windy^[FITML]^{[citation needed]}; this may decrease the apparent temperature.

Climate data for San José, Costa Rica
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	30 (86)	31 (88)	32 (90)	31 (88)	31 (88)	33 (91)	28 (82)	29 (84)	30 (86)	29 (84)	28 (82)	30 (86)	33 (91)
Average high °C (°F)	26.0 (78.8)	26.8 (80.2)	27.9 (82.2)	28.4 (83.1)	27.6 (81.7)	27.0 (80.6)	26.9 (80.4)	27.0 (80.6)	26.9 (80.4)	26.5 (79.7)	26.2 (79.2)	25.9 (78.6)	26.93 (80.47)
Daily mean °C (°F)	21.8 (71.2)	22.2 (72.0)	22.8 (73.0)	23.0 (73.4)	22.2 (72.0)	21.7 (71.1)	22.0 (71.6)	21.8 (71.2)	21.3 (70.3)	21.2 (70.2)	21.6 (70.9)	21.8 (71.2)	21.95 (71.51)
Average low °C (°F)	17.8 (64.0)	18.0 (64.4)	18.1 (64.6)	18.8 (65.8)	19.0 (66.2)	18.9 (66.0)	19.0 (66.2)	18.8 (65.8)	18.2 (64.8)	18.2 (64.8)	18.6 (65.5)	18.3 (64.9)	18.48 (65.26)
Record low °C (°F)	9 (48)	10 (50)	10 (50)	11 (52)	12 (54)	13 (55)	12 (54)	13 (55)	13 (55)	12 (54)	11 (52)	9 (48)	9 (48)
Precipitation mm (inches)	6.3 (0.248)	10.2 (0.402)	13.8 (0.543)	79.9 (3.146)	267.6 (10.535)	280.1 (11.028)	181.5 (7.146)	276.9 (10.902)	355.1 (13.98)	330.6 (13.016)	135.5 (5.335)	33.5 (1.319)	1,971 (77.6)
Avg. rainy days	1	1	2	4	13	14	13	14	18	17	8	2	107
Mean monthly sunshine hours	285.2	266.0	282.1	240.0	182.9	144.0	151.9	158.1	147.0	161.2	177.0	244.9	2,440.3
Source no. 1: HKO^[10]
Source no. 2: Weatherbase.com (records, rain days)^keyboard

Landmarks

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Gallery

National Theater
The tallest sculpture in Costa Rica: "Tradition, stability and justice" in the "Plaza de la Justicia", sculptor Ibo Bonilla
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Looking toward the Hospital San Juan de Dios
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Plaza de la Central
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National Museum of Costa Rica