Poás
Poás is a canton in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. The head city of the canton is San Pedro. Poás has an elevation of 1,176 metres.Photo: Peter Andersen, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: canton of Costa Rica with 29,200 residents
- Description: canton in Alajuela province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Poas” and “Poás Canton”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include San Pedro de Poás.
San Pedro de Poás
Town
San Pedro is a district of the Poás canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica.
Poás
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Poás” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بواس”
- Armenian: “Պոաս”
- Asturian: “cantón de Poás”
- Asturian: “Poás”
- Cebuano: “Cantón de Poás”
- Chinese: “Poás Kūn”
- Chinese: “波阿斯縣”
- Dutch: “Poás”
- French: “Poás”
- Georgian: “პოასი (კანტონი)”
- Georgian: “პოასი”
- Italian: “Cantone di Poas”
- Italian: “cantone di Poás”
- Italian: “Cantone di Poás”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Poás Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Poás”
- Norwegian: “Poás”
- Portuguese: “Poás”
- Russian: “Поас”
- Spanish: “Cantón de Poás”
- Spanish: “Poás”
- Swedish: “Cantón de Poás”
- Vietnamese: “Poás”
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