District 5 San Antonio

District V San Antonio

San Antonio: Villa

Surface area: 2.09 km2

Population (according to Census 2011): 9,727 inhabitants and 3,194 dwellings

Altitude: 1,163 meters above sea level.

Administrative Territorial Division:

San Antonio * /. Towns: Acacias *, Calle Amador, Calle Batalla, Jamaica Street, La Presa Street, Ladrillera Street, Pomez Street, Río Azul Street, Salitral Street (West Side), Trejos Street, Vivianas Street, Chorotega, Churruca, Constancia, Huetares, Miravalles , Plazoleta O Lourdes, Pueblo Nuevo, Rio Damas (Invu), Rotondas, Solar, Villa Karen, Vinsa.

Public Educational Institutions:

• IEGB República de Panamá
• Liceo de San Antonio

Historical review:

San Antonio is one of the first districts founded in the Canton of Desamparados According to the first reports of its formation, they announce that in the year 1820, there were already a few families grouped in this place and in 1824 already was known with the name current.

Among the principal neighbors of San Antonio were the following in 1825: Andrés, Eusebio, Santiago and Pedro Bermúdez, Miguel Quesada, Manuel and Tomás Romero.

San Antonio has two beautiful villages surrounded by countryside that do not lose the peasant style of its inhabitants and the natural beauty it owns, the hill of Don Matías and Salitral.

Its inhabitants acostubran to cook rich creole foods that give a delight to the palate.

The neighbors of San Antonio are known at cantonal level for their cheerful, hardworking and often bochinchero spirit.

Since ancient times, in the memories of our grandfathers, some encounters and lawsuits were mentioned among the settlers who ended up with serious quarrels between families. Today, these neighbors have controlled their character a little and have become more individualistic and less bellicose.

The district of San Antonio stands out because it has a "doll" that was designed to adorn the kiosk that would represent Costa Rica at an Exhibition held in Paris, France in 1892. For many years the statue rolled through some parts of the canton. But three neighbors of Santonio: Millo Trejos, Gilberto Bermúdez and another, placed it where it is today, to the southwest side of the Parochial Temple. Don Víctor Manuel Ureña, a native of the district and connoisseur of the story, related that many people are wrong and greet the doll and even have come to ask questions, believing it to be real. Around the "Muñeco" many stories and anecdotes have been woven, but the truth of this story is that this statue is part of the daily life of the people of San Antonio