Paraíso
Paraíso is a district of the Paraíso canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. Paraíso has about 21,500 residents and an elevation of 1,306 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 21,500 residents
- Description: district in Paraíso canton, Cartago province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Paraíso de Paraíso” and “Paraíso, Costa Rica”
- Postal code: 30201
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lankester Botanical Garden.
Lankester Botanical Garden
Garden
The Lankester Botanical Gardens are a set of gardens outside of Cartago, Costa Rica. The garden is open to the public, but is operated by the University of Costa Rica as a research center and is a major center for orchid research in both Central America and the Caribbean. Lankester Botanical Garden is situated 2½ km west of Paraíso.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orosi and El Tejar de El Guarco.
Orosi
Village
Photo: David Broad, CC BY 3.0.
Orosi is a district of the Paraíso canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. Orosi is situated 5 km south of Paraíso.
El Tejar de El Guarco
Town
El Tejar is a district and the head city of the El Guarco canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. El Tejar de El Guarco is situated 8 km west of Paraíso.
Tierra Blanca
Village
Photo: Dsolano m, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tierra Blanca is a district of the Cartago canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. Tierra Blanca is situated 9 km north of Paraíso.
Paraíso
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Paraíso, Cartago Province, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
9.83845° or 9° 50′ 18″ northLongitude
-83.8663° or 83° 51′ 59″ westPopulation
21,500Elevation
1,306 metres (4,285 feet)United Nations Location Code
CR PSOOpen location code
66XRR4QM+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 288590588OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“Paraíso” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “distritu de Paraíso”
- Asturian: “Paraíso”
- Cebuano: “Paraíso”
- Chinese: “帕拉伊索”
- Chinese: “帕賴索”
- Dutch: “Paraíso, Costa Rica”
- French: “Paraíso”
- Greek: “Παραΐζο, Κόστα Ρίκα”
- Greek: “Παραίσο, Κόστα Ρίκα”
- Greek: “Παραΐσο, Κόστα Ρίκα”
- Greek: “Παραΐσο”
- Hebrew: “פראיסו”
- Italian: “Paraíso”
- Japanese: “パライソ (コスタリカ)”
- Kotava: “Paraíso”
- Lithuanian: “Paraisas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paraíso”
- Norwegian: “Paraíso”
- Polish: “Paraiso”
- Polish: “Paraíso”
- Portuguese: “Paraíso”
- Spanish: “Paraíso de Paraíso”
- Spanish: “Paraiso”
- Spanish: “Paraíso”
- Swedish: “Paraíso”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Paraíso”. Photo: Henry Zbyszynski, CC BY 2.0.