San Ramón is the capital city of the canton of San Ramón in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. San Ramón is the name of the second canton in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. Alajuela is a province of Costa Rica. It is located in the north-central part of the country bordering Nicaragua to the north and clockwise the provinces Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,) is a Country in It is also the name of a distrito (district) that includes the center of the city. (There are adjoining districts also within the city of San Ramón). The district of San Ramón covers an area of 1. 29 km² (1), and has a population of 10,317 (2).
The city lies at an elevation of 1,057 meters above sea level (1) in the Cordillera de Tilarán. The Cordillera de Tilarán is a range of mountains in Costa Rica, part of the Continental Divide east of Lake Arenal and the nearby Active volcano It is 55 kilometers northeast of Puntarenas on the Gulf of Nicoya, 44 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital city of Alajuela and 58 kilometers from the national capital city of San Jose. Puntarenas, which means "Sandy Point" in Spanish is the capital and largest City in the province Puntarenas, Costa Rica, at the Pacific The Gulf of Nicoya (Golfo de Nicoya is an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, located at. Alajuela is the capital city of the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. San José ( Spanish: San José; ˌsɑːn hɒˈsɛː is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica, and is at the heart of the sprawling Gran Area Metropolitana
(1) Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), 2001.
(2) Estimates of Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC), May 2003.