Tibás

Tibás is the thirteenth canton in the province of in . The head city of the canton is .
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  • Type: canton of Costa Rica with 64,800 residents
  • Description: canton in San José province, Costa Rica
  • Also known as: Tibas” and “Tibás Canton

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Ricardo Saprissa Aymá and Costa Rican Center of Science and Culture.

Stadium
is a football stadium in , with a seating capacity of 23,112, making it the second-largest stadium in the country.

Museum
The Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura is a science and culture complex in . Located in a fortress-like building that once served as the central penitentiary between 1910 and 1979, the center was inaugurated in 1994.

Museum
The Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura is a science and culture complex in . Located in a fortress-like building that once served as the central penitentiary between 1910 and 1979, the center was inaugurated in 1994.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include San José and Heredia.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
is the capital and largest city of . The undisputed cultural and economic center of Costa Rica's central valley, where most of the population lives, is also the most important transportation hub for domestic travel even though the international airport is in .

region of the offers much for the visitor in downtown , and in many of the towns around , particularly in the north mountains, like Barva, San Rafael, San Isidro, where there are many coffee plantations and fresh air year round.

Village
is the seventh district of the San José canton, in the province of . It is an important industrial and commercial area of .

Tibás

Latitude
9.9667° or 9° 58′ north
Longitude
-84.0833° or 84° 5′ west
Population
64,800
Elevation
1,153 metres (3,783 feet)
Open location code
66XQXW88+MM
Geo­Names ID
3621308
Wiki­data ID
Q426978
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Tibás” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: تيباس، كوستاريكا
  • Arabic: تيباس
  • Asturian: cantón de Tibás
  • Asturian: Tibás
  • Belarusian: Тыбас
  • Cebuano: Cantón de Tibás
  • Chinese: Tibás Kūn
  • Chinese: 蒂瓦斯縣
  • French: Tibás
  • Hebrew: טיבאס
  • Italian: cantone di Tibás
  • Italian: Cantone di Tibás
  • Min Nan Chinese: Tibás Kūn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Tibás
  • Norwegian: Tibás
  • Romanian: Tibás
  • Russian: Тибас
  • Spanish: Cantón de Tibás
  • Spanish: Tibás
  • Swedish: Cantón de Tibás
  • Vietnamese: Tibás
  • Volapük: Tibás

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Highlights include Puente San Miguel and Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica San José.

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tibás”. Photo: Percyrodri, CC BY-SA 4.0.