# Tirrases > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tirrases > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Tirrases.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirrases > Source revision: 1295294490 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) District in San José, Costa Rica District in San José, Costa Rica Tirrases District Tirrases, seen from Hacienda Vieja Nickname: Tirra Tirrases district Tirrases Tirrases district location in Costa Rica Coordinates: 9°54′05″N 84°02′03″W / 9.9015151°N 84.0340513°W / 9.9015151; -84.0340513 Country Costa Rica Province San José Canton Curridabat Creation 21 August 1929 Government • Syndic Julio Omar Quirós Porras (Curridabat Siglo XXI) • Substitute syndic Dunia Montes Álvarez Area • Total 1.87 km2 (0.72 sq mi) Elevation 1,175 m (3,855 ft) Population (2011) • Total 16,247 • Density 8,690/km2 (22,500/sq mi) Demonym Tirraseño Time zone UTC−06:00 Postal code 11804 **Tirrases** is a [district](/source/Districts_of_Costa_Rica) of the [Curridabat](/source/Curridabat_(canton)) canton, in the [San José](/source/San_Jos%C3%A9_Province) province of [Costa Rica](/source/Costa_Rica).[1][2] ## Toponymy The district takes its name of the **Tirrá** tree ([Ulmus mexicana](/source/Ulmus_mexicana)). ## History The Curridabat canton was founded on 21 August 1929, as the 18th province of San José. With the creation of the canton also was created the district. ## Geography Tirrases has an area of 1.87 km2[3] and an elevation of 1,175 metres.[1] ## 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. 1950 293 — 1963 595 +5.60% 1973 1,453 +9.34% 1984 5,775 +13.37% 2000 15,826 +6.50% 2011 16,247 +0.24% 2022 16,151 −0.05% Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos[4] Centro Centroamericano de Población[5] For the [2011 census](/source/Costa_Rica_2011_Census), Tirrases had a population of 16,247 inhabitants.[6] ## Transportation ### Road transportation The district is covered by the following road routes: - [National Route 210](/source/National_Route_210_(Costa_Rica)) - [National Route 211](/source/National_Route_211_(Costa_Rica)) ## Education 6.98% of the population doesn't have any education. The district has two public schools: the *Escuela Centroamérica* and *Escuela 15 de Agosto*. Tirrases also has a public high school called *Colegio Técnico Profesional Uladislao Gámez Solano* (Fund 2006). This high school is located at the Catholic Church of *Las Mercedes* and had a population of 60 students in 2007. ## Health The health services are provided by the EBAIS (Equipo Básico de Atención Integral en Salud) located at *Hacienda Vieja*, 200 north and 25 east from the *Liceo de Curridabat*. ## Security As per the official statements domestic violence is the most common security issue, but non-official data shows that drugs and gang warfare are the main problems in this zone. *One of the various neighborhoods in Tirrases* ## External links - [Official page of Municipalidad de Curridabat](http://www.curridabat.go.cr) **(Spanish)** - [Information about Curridabat canton](https://web.archive.org/web/20090822013910/http://www.curridabat.org/) **(Spanish)** ## References - [Costa Rica portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Costa_Rica) 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¶m2=1&strTipM=TC&lResultado=1&strSim=simp). *Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica* (in Spanish). 19 March 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-dta2017_2-0)** [*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-inecarea_3-0)** ["Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo"](https://www.inec.cr/anuario-estadistico/anuario-estadistico-geografia). *Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos* (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos"](https://www.inec.cr/) (in Spanish). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** 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-censo2011_6-0)** ["Censo. 2011. Población total por zona y sexo, según provincia, cantón y distrito"](https://www.inec.cr/censos/censos-2011). *Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos* (in Spanish). 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