Mata de Plátano District

District in Goicoechea canton, San José province, Costa Rica

District in San José, Costa Rica

9°57′18″N 83°59′56″W / 9.9550225°N 83.9990136°W / 9.9550225; -83.9990136Country

Costa RicaProvinceSan JoséCantonGoicoecheaArea

• Total7.85 km² (3.03 sq mi)Elevation

1,355 m (4,446 ft)Population

(2011)

• Total17,370 • Density2,200/km² (5,700/sq mi)Time zoneUTC−06:00Postal code

10804

Mata de Plátano is a district of the Goicoechea canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.^[1]^[2]

Geography

Mata de Plátano has an area of 7.85 km²^[3] and an elevation of 1,355 metres.^[1]

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1892	228	—
1927	557	144.3%
1950	955	71.5%
1963	1,691	77.1%
1973	3,569	111.1%
1984	7,490	109.9%
2000	16,206	116.4%
2011	17,370	7.2%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos^[4] Centro Centroamericano de Población^[5]

For the 2011 census, Mata de Plátano had a population of 17,370 inhabitants.^[6]

Economy

One of its main economic activities is the plantation of cypress, used as Christmas trees in Costa Rica. Along with its immediate neighbors San Ramón District and San Rafael District, it forms one of the main cypress production areas in all the Costa Rican Central Region.^[7]

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

National Route 205

Government

The syndic is William García Arias.^[8]

References

^ ^a ^b "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. ISBN 978-9977-58-477-5.
^ "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.
^ "Árboles de navidad: Estado de la reforestación en Costa Rica" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 September 2020.
^ https://tse.go.cr/pdf/gobernantes/goicoechea.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}