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Canton in San José province, Costa Rica

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Canton in San José, Costa Rica

Moravia Canton Flag Seal Moravia canton Moravia Moravia canton location in San José Province Show map of San José Province Moravia Moravia canton location in Costa Rica Show map of Costa Rica Coordinates: 10°00′32″N 84°01′18″W / 10.0087693°N 84.0215787°W / 10.0087693; -84.0215787 Country Costa Rica Province San José Creation 1 August 1914 Named after Juan Rafael Mora Porras Head city San Vicente Districts Districts San Vicente San Jerónimo La Trinidad Government • Type Municipality • Body Municipalidad de Moravia • Mayor Diego Armando López López (PSM) Area • Total 28.82 km2 (11.13 sq mi) Elevation 1,297 m (4,255 ft) Population (2011) • Total 56,919 • Estimate (2022) 59,546 • Density 1,975/km2 (5,115/sq mi) Time zone UTC−06:00 Canton code 114 Website moravia.go.cr

**Moravia** is the fourteenth [canton](/source/Cantons_of_Costa_Rica) in the [San José](/source/San_Jos%C3%A9_Province) province of [Costa Rica](/source/Costa_Rica).[1][2] The head city of the canton is [San Vicente](/source/San_Vicente_District%2C_Moravia).

## Toponymy

It is named in honour of [President](/source/List_of_Presidents_of_Costa_Rica) [Juan Rafael Mora Porras](/source/Juan_Rafael_Mora_Porras) (1814 – 1860). Since there was already a canton called [Mora](/source/Mora_(canton)), this one was named Moravia.[3]

## History

Moravia was created on 1 August 1914 by decree 55.[2]

Law No. 55 established Villa San Vicente on 1 August 1914. The first session of the Council of Moravia was held on 19 January 1915, and the first electric street lighting was installed in the same year. Law No. 3248 gave the town of San Vicente city status on 6 December 1963.[4]

## Geography

Moravia has an area of 28.82 km2 (11.13 sq mi)[5] and a mean elevation of 1,297 m (4,255 ft).[1]

The elongated canton begins in the northern suburbs of the national capital city of [San José](/source/San_Jos%C3%A9%2C_Costa_Rica) and continues northeast toward the [Cordillera Central](/source/Cordillera_Central_(Costa_Rica)) (Central Mountain Range). The Virilla, Pará, and Blanco rivers on the north and west, and the Quebrada Azul and Macho rivers on the southeast, partially delineate the boundaries of the canton.[6]

Other rivers in Moravia include Quebrada Barreal, Quebrada Lajas, Quebrada San Francisco, Quebrada Tornillal, Quebrada Yerbabuena, Acequia, Agrá, Hondura, Ipís, Pará Grande, Paracito, and Zurquí. Mountain peaks in the area include Zurquí (1,583m), Vargas (1,396m), and Trina (1,270m).[6]

Moravia combines densely populated suburbs in the south with rural mountain landscapes in the San Jerónimo district to the north. The cantons surrounding Moravia are [Vázquez de Coronado](/source/V%C3%A1zquez_de_Coronado_Canton) to the east and north, [San Isidro](/source/San_Isidro_Canton), [Santo Domingo](/source/Santo_Domingo_Canton%2C_Costa_Rica), and [Tibás](/source/Tib%C3%A1s_Canton) to the west, and [Goicoechea](/source/Goicoechea_Canton) to the south.[6]

## Government

### Mayor

According to Costa Rica's [Municipal Code](/source/Local_government_in_Costa_Rica), mayors are elected every four years by the population of the canton.[7] As of the latest [municipal elections in 2024](/source/2024_Costa_Rican_municipal_elections), the We Are Moravia Party ([Spanish](/source/Spanish_language): *Partido Somos Moravia*; PSM) candidate, Diego Armando López López, was elected mayor of the canton with 45.36% of the votes, with Alejandra Hernández Novoa and Gerhard Phillip Hernández Padilla as first and second vice mayors, respectively.[8]

Mayors of Moravia since the 2002 elections[9] Period Name Party 2002–2006 Alejandro Hidalgo Carballo PLN 2006–2010 Edgar Vargas Jiménez PAC 2010–2016 Juan Pablo Hernández Cortés PLN 2016–2020 Roberto Zoch Gutiérrez PAC 2020–2024 PSM 2024–2028 Diego Armando López López

### Municipal Council

Like the mayor and vice mayors, members of the Municipal Council (called *regidores*) are elected every four years. Moravia's 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.[7] The current president of the Municipal Council is We Are Moravia Party regidor Randall Emilio Montero Rodríguez, with [Progressive Liberal Party](/source/Progressive_Liberal_Party_(Costa_Rica)) regidora Grethel Fernández Carmona as vice-president.[10] The Municipal Council's composition for the 2024–2028 period is as follows:

Composition of the Municipal Council of Moravia after the 2024 municipal elections[11] Political parties in the Municipal Council of Moravia Political party Regidores № Owner Substitute We Are Moravia (PSM) 3 Randall Emilio Montero Rodríguez(P) Mauricio José Calvo Umaña Mayra Lorena Valerio Rojas Brenda Raquel Padilla Bermúdez Marco Tulio Aguilar Bermúdez Pedro Manuel Paganella Herrera Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) 2 Grethel Fernández Carmona(VP) Johanna Muñoz Barahona Kevin Mauricio Méndez Céspedes Luis Eduardo Gutiérrez Montero National Liberation Party (PLN) 2 Ronald Camacho Esquivel Carlos Gabriel Gómez Torres Sandra Artavia Salas Mayela Garro Herrera

## Districts

The canton of Moravia is subdivided into the following [districts](/source/Districts_of_Costa_Rica):

1. [San Vicente](/source/San_Vicente_District%2C_Moravia)

1. [San Jerónimo](/source/San_Jer%C3%B3nimo_District%2C_Moravia)

1. [La Trinidad](/source/La_Trinidad_District)

## Demographics

‹ The [template](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Template) *[Historical populations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Historical_populations)* is being [considered for merging](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2026_June_24#Template:Infobox_demographics). ›

Historical population Census Pop. ±% p.a. 1927 2,778 — 1950 5,727 +3.20% 1963 11,642 +5.61% 1973 19,548 +5.32% 1984 33,038 +4.89% 2000 50,419 +2.68% 2011 56,919 +1.11% 2022 59,546 +0.41% Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[12] Centro Centroamericano de Población[13]

Moravia had an estimated 59,546 inhabitants in 2022, up from 56,919 at the time of the [2011 census](/source/Costa_Rica_2011_Census).[14][15]

Moravia had a [Human Development Index](/source/Human_Development_Index) of 0.835 in 2022, the fifth highest in the country.[16]

## Education

Porfirio Brenes Castro School in San Vicente

The first school was founded in 1848, called "school for the education of the children of the residents of San Vicente", and was located on the north side of the current San Vicente city park, called Parque de Moravia. A [charity school](/source/Charity_school) was created in 1862, with two sections, one for boys and one for women.

In 1891, an adobe and brick building was created for the school and this was renamed *Escuela Graduada de Varones de San Vicente* (Graduate School for Boys of Saint Vincent) in 1893. Two years later, the name *Graduada de Mujeres de San Vicente* (Graduate School of Women of Saint Vincent) was added and these names were maintained until 1932, when the school was renamed again as *[Escuela Porfirio Brenes Castro](https://web.archive.org/web/20110121142612/http://moravia.costaricalinda.com/Escuela_Porfirio_Brenes.htm)*, its current name. The school Porfirio Brenes Castro now occupies a city block to the south of Parque de Moravia. Porfirio Brenes Castro was a teacher who lived 28 June 1877 – 12 December 1914.[17]

The private school, *Saint Francis College*, was founded on 23 February 1950, and another school, "Colegio Nuestra Señora de Sión", "Saint Anthony School", "Saint Joseph",*Liceo de Moravia*, began teaching in March 1966.,[4] and Liceo Laboratorio Emma Gamboa.

Costa Rica's [Japanese international school](/source/Nihonjin_gakko), *[Escuela Japonesa de San José](/source/Escuela_Japonesa_de_San_Jos%C3%A9)* (サンホセ日本人学校 *Sanhose Nihonjin Gakkō*), is located in Moravia.[18]

## Transportation

### Road transportation

The canton is covered by the following road routes:

- [National Route 32](/source/National_Route_32_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 102](/source/National_Route_102_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 109](/source/National_Route_109_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 117](/source/National_Route_117_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 200](/source/National_Route_200_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 220](/source/National_Route_220_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 307](/source/National_Route_307_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 308](/source/National_Route_308_(Costa_Rica))

- [National Route 309](/source/National_Route_309_(Costa_Rica))

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-divadm_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-divadm_1-1) ["Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República N°41548-MGP"](http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?param1=NRTC&nValor1=1&nValor2=88416&nValor3=115607&param2=1&strTipM=TC&lResultado=1&strSim=simp). *Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica* (in Spanish). 19 March 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-dta2017_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-dta2017_2-1) [*División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica*](https://www.imprentanacional.go.cr/editorialdigital/libros/historiaygeografia/division_17.pdf) (PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional. 8 March 2017. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-9977-58-477-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-9977-58-477-5).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Cantón de Moravia](http://www.moravia.go.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=22) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20111229080355/http://www.moravia.go.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=11&Itemid=22) 2011-12-29 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) Municipalidad de Moravia. Retrieved: 2012-03-13. (in Spanish)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-reseña_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-reseña_4-1) [Breve Reseña Histórica de Moravia](http://www.moravia.go.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=23) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20111229080359/http://www.moravia.go.cr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=23) 2011-12-29 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) Municipalidad de Moravia. retrieved: 2012-03-13. (in Spanish)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-ignarea_5-0)** Instituto Geográfico Nacional de Costa Rica (20 June 2024). ["División Territorial Administrativa, 2024"](https://files.snitcr.go.cr/boletines/DTA-TABLA%20POR%20PROVINCIA-CANT%C3%93N-DISTRITO%202024.pdf) [Administrative Territorial Division, 2024] (PDF) (in Spanish).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-map_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-map_6-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-map_6-2) [Map of Moravia](http://ccp.ucr.ac.cr/bvp/mapoteca/CostaRica/generales/atlas_cantonal_1984/15-Moravia.pdf) Atlas Cantonal de Costa Rica, 1985.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-codmuni_7-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-codmuni_7-1) [Asamblea Legislativa de la República de Costa Rica](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Costa_Rica) (13 May 2024). ["Código Municipal"](http://www.pgrweb.go.cr/scij/Busqueda/Normativa/Normas/nrm_texto_completo.aspx?nValor1=1&nValor2=40197) [Municipal Code]. *Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica* (in Spanish).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2024alcdec2_8-0)** [Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones](/source/Supreme_Electoral_Court_of_Costa_Rica) (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"](https://www.tse.go.cr/juris/relevantes/1658-E11-2024.html) (in Spanish).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-decs_9-0)** [Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones](/source/Supreme_Electoral_Court_of_Costa_Rica). ["Resoluciones declaratorias de elección"](https://www.tse.go.cr/declaratorias.htm). *Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones* (in Spanish).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** Secretaría del Concejo Municipal de Moravia (14 October 2024). ["Sesión Ordinaria N.°024"](https://moravia.go.cr/download/ordinaria-024-2024-14-10-2024/?wpdmdl=16645&refresh=6722cccbb2bb51730333899). Retrieved 30 October 2024.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2024regdec2_11-0)** [Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones](/source/Tribunal_Supremo_de_Elecciones_de_Costa_Rica) (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"](https://www.tse.go.cr/juris/relevantes/2218-E11-2024.html) (in Spanish).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos"](https://www.inec.cr/) (in Spanish).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-13)** Centro Centroamericano de Población de la Universidad de Costa Rica. ["Sistema de Consulta a Bases de Datos Estadísticas"](https://censos.ccp.ucr.ac.cr/) (in Spanish).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2022popest_14-0)** [Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos](/source/National_Institute_of_Statistics_and_Census_of_Costa_Rica) (July 2023). [*Estimación de Población y Vivienda 2022 : Resultados Generales*](https://admin.inec.cr/sites/default/files/2023-10/rePoblacResultadosGenerales_Estimacion_poblacion_vivienda_2022_0.pdf) [*2022 Population and Housing Estimate : General Results*] (PDF) (in Spanish). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9789930525753](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789930525753).

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1. **[^](#cite_ref-2022hdi_16-0)** Sistema Nacional de Información y Registro Único de Beneficiarios del Estado; [Escuela de Estadística de la Universidad de Costa Rica](/source/University_of_Costa_Rica); [Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo](/source/United_Nations_Development_Programme) (9 June 2023). ["Atlas de Desarrollo Humano Cantonal en Costa Rica, 2022"](https://www.undp.org/es/costa-rica/publicaciones/atlas-de-desarrollo-humano-cantonal-2022/).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-17)** Cartín, Maritza (2020-06-21). ["Escuela Porfirio Brenes Castro, San Vicente, Moravia, S.J., 1851-1900"](https://micostaricadeantano.com/2020/06/21/escuela-porfirio-brenes-castro-san-vicente-moravia-s-j-1851-1900/). *Mi Costa Rica de Antaño* (in Spanish).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-18)** "[トップへ戻る](http://sjo-escuelaj.com/index2.htm)" *[Escuela Japonesa de San José](/source/Escuela_Japonesa_de_San_Jos%C3%A9)*. Retrieved on March 15, 2015. "学校所在地 Barrio Los Colegios, de Colegio de Farmaceuticos 50mts.al este, Moravia, San Jose, Costa Rica"

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