{{Short description|Canton in San José province, Costa Rica}} {{Expand Spanish|Cantón de Curridabat|date=March 2025|topic=geo}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Curridabat | nickname = Curri |native_name_lang = es |settlement_type = [[Cantons of Costa Rica|Canton]] |pushpin_map = Costa Rica San José#Costa Rica |pushpin_map_alt = Curridabat canton location in San José Province##Curridabat canton location in Costa Rica |pushpin_map_caption = Curridabat canton location in San José Province##Curridabat canton location in Costa Rica |coordinates = {{coord|9.9163367|-84.0282798|type:adm2nd_region:CR|display=inline,title}} |image_flag = Bandera de Curridabat.svg |image_seal = Escudo Curridabat.png | mapframe = yes | mapframe-point = none |map_alt = Curridabat canton |map_caption = Curridabat canton |image_skyline = Vista de las montañas de Curridabat 2019.jpg |image_alt = Mountains seen from Curridabat. |image_caption = Mountains seen from Curridabat. |established_title = Creation |established_date = 21 August 1929 |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{CRI}} |subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of Costa Rica|Province]] |subdivision_name1 = [[San José Province|San José]] |seat_type = Head city |seat = [[Curridabat District|Curridabat]] |leader_title = Mayor |leader_name = Errol Andrés Solano Bolaños ([[21st Century Curridabat|CSXXI]]) |government_type = [[Local government in Costa Rica|Municipality]] |governing_body = {{lang|es|Municipalidad de Curridabat}} |parts_type = [[Districts of Costa Rica|Districts]] |parts_style = list |parts = Districts |p1 = [[Curridabat District|Curridabat]] |p2 = [[Granadilla District|Granadilla]] |p3 = [[Sánchez District|Sánchez]] |p4 = [[Tirrases District|Tirrases]] |area_total_km2 = 16.06 |elevation_m = 1244 |population_total = 65206 |population_as_of = 2011 |population_est = 71026 |pop_est_as_of = 2022 |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone1 = [[UTC−06:00]] |blank_name = Canton code |blank_info = 118 |website = {{URL|https://www.curridabat.go.cr/}} }} '''Curridabat''' is the eighteenth [[Cantons of Costa Rica|canton]] in the [[San José Province|San José]] province of [[Costa Rica]].<ref name="divadm">{{cite web |lang=es |title=Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República N°41548-MGP |url=http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?param1=NRTC&nValor1=1&nValor2=88416&nValor3=115607¶m2=1&strTipM=TC&lResultado=1&strSim=simp |website=Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica |access-date=26 September 2020 |date=19 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="dta2017">{{cite book |lang=es |title=División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica|date=8 March 2017|publisher=Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional|isbn=978-9977-58-477-5|url=https://www.imprentanacional.go.cr/editorialdigital/libros/historiaygeografia/division_17.pdf}}</ref> The head city the homonymous [[Curridabat]]. The canton forms a suburb of the national capital of [[San José, Costa Rica|San José]], lying on the southeast edge of the city.
== History == Curridabat was created on 21 August 1929 by decree 209.<ref name="dta2017"/>
== Government == In 1930, the canton had a municipality with three {{Lang|es|regidores}}, a mayor ({{Lang|es|Ejecutivo Municipal}}) and a ''political chief'' ({{Lang|es|Jefe Político}}; both charges were held by same person). At this time, the canton's population was of {{formatnum:5000}} people. As the population grew, the municipality had to create a sanitation department to collect garbage, provide public road maintenance, and build infrastructure. The municipality Council was later expanded to five members by popular election in 1970.
=== Mayor === According to Costa Rica's [[Local government in Costa Rica|Municipal Code]], mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton.<ref name="codmuni">{{Cite web |author=Asamblea Legislativa de la República de Costa Rica |author-link=Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica |date=13 May 2024 |title=Código Municipal |trans-title=Municipal Code |url=http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?nValor1=1&nValor2=40197 |website=Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica |language=es}}</ref> As of the latest [[2024 Costa Rican municipal elections|municipal elections in 2024]], the [[21st Century Curridabat]] (CSXXI) candidate, Errol Andrés Solano Bolaños, was elected mayor of the canton with 24.52% of the votes, with Paula Rebeca Camacho Solís and Melissa Berenzon Quirós as first and second vice mayors, respectively.<ref name="2024alcdec2">{{Cite web |author=Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones |author-link=Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica |date=8 March 2024 |title=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. |url=https://www.tse.go.cr/juris/relevantes/1658-E11-2024.html |language=es}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="margin:auto" |+ Mayors of Curridabat since the [[2002 Costa Rican municipal elections|2002 elections]]<ref name="decs">{{Cite web |author=Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones |author-link=Supreme Electoral Court of Costa Rica |title=Resoluciones declaratorias de elección |url=https://www.tse.go.cr/declaratorias.htm |website=Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones |language=es}}</ref> !Period !Name !Party |- |[[2002 Costa Rican municipal elections|2002–2006]] |Luz de los Ángeles Retana Chinchilla{{Efn|Also legally named Lucy Retana Chinchilla.}} | rowspan="6" |[[File:Bandera del Curridabat Siglo XXI.svg|border|frameless|upright=.1]] [[21st Century Curridabat|CSXXI]] |- |[[2006 Costa Rican municipal elections|2006–2010]] | rowspan="3" |Edgar Eduardo Mora Altamirano |- |[[2010 Costa Rican municipal elections|2010–2016]] |- |[[2016 Costa Rican municipal elections|2016–2020]] |- |[[2020 Costa Rican municipal elections|2020–2024]] |Jimmy Cruz Jiménez |- |[[2024 Costa Rican municipal elections|2024–2028]] |Errol Andrés Solano Bolaños |}
=== Municipal Council === Like the mayor and vice mayors, members of the Municipal Council (called {{lang|es|regidores}}) are elected every four years. Curridabat's Municipal Council has 7 seats for regidores and their substitutes, who can participate in meetings but not vote unless the owning regidor ({{Lang|es|regidor propietario}}) is absent.<ref name="codmuni"/> The current president of the Municipal Council is Pro-Curri People Party member Luis Ulderico Monge Díaz, with [[Social Christian Unity Party]] member Andrea Vargas Uribe as vice president.<ref name="concmuni">{{Cite web |author=Municipalidad de Curridabat |title=Concejo Municipal |trans-title=Municipal Council |url=https://www.curridabat.go.cr/concejo-municipalm2/ |access-date=5 March 2025 |language=es}}</ref> The Municipal Council's composition for the 2024–2028 period is as follows:
{| class="wikitable" border="1" style="margin:auto;" |+ Composition of the Municipal Council of Curridabat after the [[2024 Costa Rican municipal elections|2024 municipal elections]]<ref name="2024regdec2">{{Cite web |author=Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones |author-link=Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones de Costa Rica |date=12 February 2024 |title=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. |url=https://www.tse.go.cr/juris/relevantes/2218-E11-2024.html |language=es}}</ref> |----- ! colspan="3" rowspan="2" |Political party ! colspan="3" |Regidores ! rowspan="2" |Diagram |- !№ !Owner !Substitute |- | rowspan="2" |[[File:Bandera del Curridabat Siglo XXI.svg|border|frameless|upright=.2]] | rowspan="2" |[[21st Century Curridabat]] (CSXXI) | rowspan="2" bgcolor="#FFDF00" | | rowspan="2" |2 |Ingrid Molina Huezo |Mariana Román Solano | rowspan="7" |[[File:Costa Rica Curridabat Concejo Municipal 2024.svg|frameless|center]] |- |Oscar Arturo Mora Almariano |Roger Alfredo Díaz Aguilar |- |[[File:Bandera de Partido Liberación Nacional.svg|border|frameless|upright=.2]] |[[National Liberation Party (Costa Rica)|National Liberation Party]] (PLN) | bgcolor="#00A94F" | |1 |Bolívar Gerardo Jiménez Rodríguez |Oscar Rojas Ramos |----- |[[File:Bandera Partido Agenda Democrática Nacional Costa Rica (2020-Presente).svg|border|frameless|upright=.2]] |National Democratic Agenda (ADN) | bgcolor="#4CCEDD" | |1 |Alberto Gerardo Fernandez Aguilar |Julio Omar Quirós Porras |- |[[File:Bandera Partido Gente Pro-Curri CR-SJ-CU.svg|border|frameless|upright=.2]] |Pro-Curri People Party (PGPC) | bgcolor="#666666" | |1 |Luis Ulderico Monge Díaz<sup>(P)</sup> |Alexis Gerardo Lopez Villalta |- |[[File:Bandera del Partido Unidad Social Cristiana.svg|border|frameless|upright=.2]] |[[Social Christian Unity Party]] (PUSC) | bgcolor="#C42026" | |1 |Andrea Vargas Uribe<sup>(VP)</sup> |Tatiana Rivera Bonilla |- |[[File:Bandera Partido Progreso Social Democrático Costa Rica.svg|border|frameless|upright=.2]] |[[Social Democratic Progress Party]] (PSD) | bgcolor="#1007A0" | |1 |Cindy María Hernández Cordero |Jessica Solano Fernandez |}
== Geography == Curridabat has an area of {{cvt|16.06|km2}}.<ref name="ignarea">{{Cite web |author=Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica |date=20 June 2024 |title=División Territorial Administrativa, 2024 |trans-title=Administrative Territorial Division, 2024 |url=https://files.snitcr.go.cr/boletines/DTA-TABLA%20POR%20PROVINCIA-CANT%C3%93N-DISTRITO%202024.pdf |language=es |format=PDF}}</ref>
==Points of interest== * {{Lang|es|Plaza del Sol}} (Sun's Plaza) a shopping center built between 1982 and 1983. At the time it was the most modern shopping center in the city. Today, it has many customers ranging from middle to high class. * {{Lang|es|Multiplaza del Este}} (Eastern Multiplaza), now Multiplaza Curridabat, is a mall built between August 2002 and October 2003 that belongs to the [[Multiplaza|commercial chain of the same name]] and have other malls in Central America. It has a food court, cinemas and stores. It is located in the old establishment of Republic Tobacco Co. The mall was expanded twice in 2007 and between 2013 and 2014. * ''San José Indoor Club'', it is a recreational sports club for the middle and high class in San José. It was opened during the mid-1970s.
== Districts == The canton of Curridabat is subdivided into the following [[Districts of Costa Rica|districts]]: # [[Curridabat District|Curridabat]] # [[Granadilla District|Granadilla]] # [[Sánchez District|Sánchez]] # [[Tirrases District|Tirrases]]
== Demographics == {{CR Census population}} Curridabat had an estimated {{formatnum:71026}} inhabitants in 2022,<ref name="2022popest">{{Cite book |author=Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos |author-link=National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica |url=https://admin.inec.cr/sites/default/files/2023-10/rePoblacResultadosGenerales_Estimacion_poblacion_vivienda_2022_0.pdf |title=Estimación de Población y Vivienda 2022 : Resultados Generales |date=July 2023 |isbn=9789930525753 |language=es |trans-title=2022 Population and Housing Estimate : General Results}}</ref> up from {{formatnum:65206}} at the time of the [[Costa Rica 2011 Census|2011 census]].<ref name="censo2011">{{cite web |lang=es |title=Censo. 2011. Población total por zona y sexo, según provincia, cantón y distrito |url=https://www.inec.cr/censos/censos-2011 |website=Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos |access-date=26 September 2020}}</ref>
In 2022, Curridabat had a [[Human Development Index]] of 0.835, the sixth highest nationwide.<ref name="2022hdi">{{Cite web |author=Sistema Nacional de Información y Registro Único de Beneficiarios del Estado |author2=Escuela de Estadística de la Universidad de Costa Rica |author-link2=University of Costa Rica |author3=Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo |author-link3=United Nations Development Programme |date=9 June 2023 |title=Atlas de Desarrollo Humano Cantonal en Costa Rica, 2022 |url=https://www.undp.org/es/costa-rica/publicaciones/atlas-de-desarrollo-humano-cantonal-2022/}}</ref>
==Notable residents== * [[Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier]], former president, lives in Pinares; also son of former president [[Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia]] * [[Karen Olsen Beck]], wife of former president [[José Figueres Ferrer]]; also mother of former president [[José Figueres Olsen]] * == Transportation == === Road transportation === The canton is covered by the following road routes: {{columns-list| *[[File:CR RNP 2.svg|25px]] [[National Route 2 (Costa Rica)|National Route 2]] *[[File:CR RNS 210.svg|25px]] [[National Route 210 (Costa Rica)|National Route 210]] *[[File:CR RNS 211.svg|25px]] [[National Route 211 (Costa Rica)|National Route 211]] *[[File:CR RNS 215.svg|25px]] [[National Route 215 (Costa Rica)|National Route 215]] *[[File:CR RNS 221.svg|25px]] [[National Route 221 (Costa Rica)|National Route 221]] *[[File:CR RNS 251.svg|25px]] [[National Route 251 (Costa Rica)|National Route 251]] *[[File:CR RNS 252.svg|25px]] [[National Route 252 (Costa Rica)|National Route 252]] *[[File:CR RNT 306.svg|25px]] [[National Route 306 (Costa Rica)|National Route 306]] }} === Rail transportation === The [[Interurbano Line (Costa Rica)|Interurbano Line]] operated by [[Incofer]] goes through this canton.
== Notes == {{Notelist}}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Provinces of Costa Rica}}
[[Category:Cantons of San José Province]] [[Category:Populated places in San José Province]]