District 4 San Rafael Arriba
District I Homeless
San Rafael Top: Villa
Surface area: 3.11 km2
Population (according to Census 2011): 15,262 inhabitants and 4296 dwellings
Altitude: 1,200 meters above sea level.
Administrative Territorial Division:
San Rafael Arriba * /. Towns: Alpine, Rainbow, Bambu, Barrio Nuevo, Berlay, Calle Brujo (East Side), Calle Lajas, Calle Monge, Escuela Quemada *, Guaria, Huaso (North Part), Juncales, Macarena, Maiquetia *, Mendez, Nazareth, Santa Eduvigis, Urb. Grano De Oro, Urb. Higueron, Urb. Tres Jotas, Villa Ceci.
C. P. San Rafael Arriba.
H. A. San Cayetano.
Public Educational Institutions:
- Jardín de Niños Manuel Ortuño
- Escuela Manuel Ortuño
- Escuela Sor María Romero
- Liceo Joaquín Gutiérrez Mangel
- CAI Buen Pastor
Historical review:
This is the fourth district of the Canton of Desamparados, which was originally called Palo Grande Barracks.
San Rafael Arriba is located the Good Shepherd Penitentiary Center, which was led for many years by the Reverend Mothers of the Good Shepherd, who greatly contributed to the spiritual and material development of the people. There is also a parish church, a cural house, a public library, as well as the schools Manuel Ortuño Boutin and San Rafael ( "burned school") and the football stadium.
This district had two churches before the current construction.
The first one was small of adobes and of very old esteem, soon another rose to the Gothic style, located where is today the Park Lucas Ulloa, that beautiful church counted on numerous windows and was all of wood lined with brass, the floor of mosaic was Donated by former President Alfredo González. The works were directed by Don Lucas Ulloa. Its cost was estimated at 35,000.00 (thirty-five thousand accurate colones). It was demolished in 1968 because it was considered to extend the road where the church was at the end, the precious jewel was removed and the road never happened by that place.
For many years it counted on recreational centers like the Balneario Los Juncales, today it is an abandoned site and Villa Luisa. He has a coffee benefit, owned by Alfredo Castro and his family and counted for many years with the Factory of Safe Coffee, Don Juan Rafael Ch. And children. San Rafael Arriba has a cantonal delegation of the Rural Guard, the first police agent was Don Florentino Garbanzo Monge.
The first name given to San Rafael was "Palo Grande" because there was an immense fig tree at the entrance to the village and it was the ideal place for the candlesticks of Candelaria to rest under its beautiful. In a public document of 1976, they appear like neighbors: Don Juan José Ulloa, Juan Monge, Felix Ureña, Juan Morles, Antonio Segura, brothers Miguel, Manuel, Antonio, Baltazar and Jose Lopez, Benita Chacón, Antonio Chinchilla, Jose Manuel Monge , José Antonio Santana Sotela, Juan Jimenez, Juan Ureña, Esteban Gamboa, Manuel Chaves, Manuel Zúñiga, Bartolomé, Pedro and José Gamboa and another one. On one occasion, three images were brought to Desamparados: San Rafael, San Antonio and San Miguel to distribute them in the hamlets adjacent to Two Fences (now Desamparados). These images were raffled, corresponding to Palo Grande the one of San Rafael; Hence the current name.
THE SCHOOL
It was inaugurated on March 20, 1893, with the assistance of the President of the Republic, Lie. José Joaquín Rodríguez, Minister of Education Miguel Obregón; The Auxiliary of the Inspection, Don Jesus Kurtze; The Political Chief and the Municipality in body, the Board of Education and large number of individuals.