District 12 Las Gravilias
District Data No 12 Gravilias
Gravilias: Villa
Surface area: 2.97 km2
Population (according to Census 2011): 15,024 inhabitants and 4,832 dwellings
Altitude: 1,150 meters above sea level.
Administrative Territorial Division:
Gravilias * /. Towns: Cartonera, Cruce (Eastern Part), Diamond, Fortuna *, Fortunita, La Raya, Las Cumbres or Castile, Mary Help of Christians, Resid. White House, Riberalta, Urb. Laurel, Urb. Fusolvi, Villa Nueva, Von Schroter.
Future*/. Towns: Claveles, Damascus, Esmeraldas, El Porvenir Gardens, Urb. Cascadas, Urb. Salitral (Lomas Salitral Oeste) *.
Public Educational Institutions:
- Escuela Las Gravilias
- Escuela Reverendo Francisco Schmitz
- Liceo de Gravilias
Historical review:
The name is due to the humidity of the land, trees were planted Gravilias, these have the property to absorb water in quantity.
At the end of the last century, the important business man, coffee grower, coffee grower and exporter Don Guido Von Schoter R. came from Desamparados, accompanied by his sons Don Luis, Don Herberth and Doña Golde. His wife had died in his native country.
Don Guido bought the benefit and Hacienda La Raya, which was made up of the estates La Fortuna. La Fortunita and Gravilias. The name of the latter is because it was preferably populated by trees gravilia that served as a shade to the coffee.
The pickings or collection of coffee were made with cogedores, who attracted by the particular good treats and good pay come to offer their labor. The workers came from San Miguel, San Antonio, Patarra, Aserrí, San Rafael, Calle Fallas, San Jerónimo, Tiribí, San Juan de Dios and other places of Desamparados.
It was thus that in the session PI 1103 held on August 14, 1964, by article X, the Board of Directors of INVU agreed to award the purchase of land in the metropolitan area, which is included in the farm offered by Mr. Herberth Von Choter Adelman, whose description is as follows: 33 apples, 8,409 square rods, property inscribed on the property register, party, of San José, tome 1185, folio 238, No. 86901, Seats 3 and 4, price per square rod 3.00 (three colones) total value of this award: 1,015,227.00 (one million fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty-seven exact colones) Footnote: It is reserved for the seller of this year's coffee harvest.
The publication of the public award No. 454 was made in La Gaceta No. 194 of August 27, 1964. It is established that the property to which the aforementioned award refers refers to the Gravilias estate.
Among the founders or first settlers of Gravialias are the following families: Sandí Chinchilla, Vargas Salas, Chavez Rojas, Alvarez Sánchez, Chavarría Rodríguez, Fernández Ramírez, Flores Fallas, Garita Brenes, Castro Castillo, Salas Espinoza, Fallas Mora, Abarca Ureña, Molina Solano, Sequeira Solís, Sandí Gómez, Navarro Barahona and Céspedes Espinoza.