Sabanilla District, Montes de Oca facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sabanilla
District
Wood house in Sabanilla.
Sabanilla Location in Costa Rica
Country	Costa Rica
Province	San José
Canton	Montes de Oca
Area
• Total	1.78 km2 (0.69 sq mi)
Elevation	1,305 m (4,281 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	10,775
• Density	6,053/km2 (15,680/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Postal code	11502

Sabanilla is a district of the Montes de Oca canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

Toponymy

Sabanilla comes from the root word sabana, which translates as savanna and the diminutive suffix -illa, therefore the meaning becomes little savanna, a small area without a thick tree canopy.

History

By the end of the 19th century, finishes the construction of the Iglesia San Ramón Nonato, it was a work promoted by a visit to the coffee producing town by Monsignor Bernardo Augusto Thiel, second bishop of Costa Rica between 1880 and 1991.

On August 2, 1915, the Montes de Oca canton is founded by law decree 45, under the Alfredo González Flores administration. On April 24, 1977, Franz Hinkelammert established in Sabanilla the Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones (DEI), which is visited annually by many liberation theologians and community culture workers from all the Latin American region.

Geography

Sabanilla has an area of 1.78 km² and an elevation of 1,305 metres.

Locations

There are many residential projects completed:

• Barrio Arboledas
• Barrio Cedros
• Barrio Damiana
• Barrio El Rodeo
• Barrio Emmanuel
• Barrio Españolita
• Barrio Frutos Umaña
• Barrio La Familia
• Barrio Luciana
• Barrio Málaga
• Barrio Maravilla
• Barrio Marsella
• Barrio Paso Real
• Barrio Prado
• Barrio Rosales
• Barrio Sabanilla (downtown of the district)
• Barrio San Marino
• Barrio Toscana
• Barrio Tulin

Demographics

For the 2011 census, Sabanilla had a population of 10,775 inhabitants.

Transportation

Road transportation

The district is covered by the following road routes:

• National Route 202
• National Route 203