District 1 Centro
District Data No.1 Homeless
Homeless: City
Surface area: 3,3 km2
Population (according to Census 2011): 33,866 inhabitants and 10,380 dwellings
Altitude: 1,161 meters above sea level.
Administrative Territorial Division:
Desamparados: Towns: Damas Quarter, Colonia del Sur, Dorados, Metropolis, Mora Rojas, Palo Grande, Marschall Residence, Rojas, Trunks or Tuconada, Vista Verde.
Street Fallas * /. Towns: Bellavista, California, Calle Angulo, Contador Street, Jorco Street, Naranjos Street, Chapel, Carmen Murillo, Friends Center, Ceramics, Citadel Cucubres, Crossing (West Side), Florita, Garden, Los Duraznos, Monseñor Sanabria, Monte Claro , Retoños, Rio Jorco, Sabara, San Esteban Rey, San Jose, San Roque, Tica Linda, Torremolinos *, Urbanization García Monge.
St Geronimo*. Towns: Altamira, Araya Street, La Paz Citadel, Cocori (Kamakiri), Loma Linda, Lotus, Pines, Tauro, Urbanization Pinar Del Río, Urb Kiria, Venice.
H. Ofelia Carvajal De Naranjo.
Public Educational Institutions:
Children's Garden María Jiménez
Joaquín García Monge School
Jose Trinidad Mora School
San Jerónimo School
Our Lady of the Forsaken College
Liceo Monsignor Rubén Odio Herrera
Vocational College Monseñor Víctor Manuel Sanabria
Liceo de Calle Fallas
Night School of Homelessness
Vocational College Monseñor Víctor Manuel Sanabria Nocturnal Section
Marco Tulio Salazar Virtual College, Fallas Street Headquarters
Historical review
The canton of Desamparados in the pre-Columbian era was inhabited by Indians of the Huetar Kingdom of the West, domains of Cacique Garabito. The Indians who inhabited Desamparados were the same ones that inhabited Aserri, standing out the Cacique Acserri, originating from the Quepo Indians, telling the legend that these tribes had the prettiest Indians of the region, causing great astonishment among the Spanish conquerors.
From the eighteenth century (1700) it was populated with inhabitants who were looking for a place that would provide them with firewood, water, pastures and fertile land for their crops. Thus inhabited Desamparados was surrounded by the rivers Damas, Tiribí and Cucubres and the small hills of Salitral and San Antonio, as well as the mountains of the South, which are small foothills of the great Cordillera de Talamanca.
The first settlers located their houses along the road that a San Jose with Aserri and separated their properties with fences, whether of stone or natural trees, reason why formerly was called Two Fences.
On July 4, 1855, under the administration of Juan Rafael Mora Porras, by Law No 20, Desamparados was erected as Villa.
In 1861, it already existed in Desamparados, the first school exclusively for girls.
In 1879, it witnessed a great luminous act in the Center of the Canton, because the Municipality inaugurated the lighting in front of the Church and the place with oil lamps.
On August 8, 1880, a Higher Primary Education Center was inaugurated in Desamparados for the preparation of teachers, with the name Normal School of Desamparados, financed by the incipient local Municipality, which already showed signs of organization and development Of public education.
In 1881, Joaquín García Monge, son of Joaquín García, a Carthaginian teacher who was brought to Desamparados, was born by Don Mariano Monge Guillén, wealthy farmer Desamparadeño, who wanted to educate his daughters. One of these, Luisa Monge Guerrero, married her teacher and thus was born Joaquín García Monge, who was orphaned in the first years of life. Joaquin, learned to read in the house School built by Father Reyes, now a museum and then he entered the Lyceum of Costa Rica, where he took the sixth grade and the bachelor, to receive a scholarship and go to study pedagogy in Chile. At the age of 17, he wrote his novel of habits "Moto", which catapulted him as a man of letters, standing out for his enormous work as editor and journalist.
The first mixed school building was created in 1894 as the Mixed School of Desamparados, later named Joaquín García Monge, in honor of this illustrious son of the Canton. For this work, Francisco María Núñez, great promoter of education and other matters of public interest, made great efforts.
In March of 1953, under the Administration Otilio Ulate, the Professional Technical College Monseñor Sanabria Martínez was created.
The Potrero of the trunks
Miguel Salguero. The Fogon of the peonada
Today is this: a residential. But forty years ago it was the world of the little stories of the Diaz, the Zuniga, the Jimenez, the Urena, and other surnames that created the haciendas of Ortuños, Castros, Von Schoeters and others at the tip of machete and spade. Pieces of daily life, without horizons of titles but rich in jocotes, coffee plantations, pastures, mud and poverty but not extreme.
El Potrero de los Truncos and next to Hacienda El Salitral, the "ours" because the grandfather was forty years his principal, it is where Uncle Cheyo thrusts his younger brothers, every time he braised the donkey so that they do not lose " The blessing of the donkey ". Here it is, and the donkey belonged to Don Gaspar. Also here in this paddock, we had the news of sex. And no more than a hundred meters from this point a plane flew into a ditch. Because Marcos Naranjo, Muñeco Araya and other national pilots made their first pinitos in an aviation school installed in the pasture of Los Troncos. It was a "ground" device that could not take off; The students propelled him into the landing field, maneuvered and held him down. That day they could not hold him and fell into the ditch. That's where the school ended. But to the mind they come renewing old cobwebs, more than the memories of here, those next door, the Corral, the Hacienda de los Rojas.