Barva
Barva is a district of the Barva canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. The city is known for having a nice mix of rural and metropolitan landscape.- Type: Locality with 5,000 residents
- Description: canton in Heredia province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Barva Canton”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Eladio Rosabal Cordero Stadium and Museo de Cultura Popular.
Eladio Rosabal Cordero Stadium
Photo: Alofaga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero was a multi-purpose stadium in Heredia, Costa Rica. The stadium held 8,700 people and opened in 1949. It was mostly used for football matches and was the home stadium of Herediano.
Museo de Cultura Popular
Museum
Photo: Rquesada, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Museo de Cultura Popular is a museum in the district of Santa Lucía, just south of Barva, Costa Rica. It is located in the former home of ex-president Alfredo González Flores.
Parroquia San Bartolomé Apóstol
Church
Photo: Tillor87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Parroquia San Bartolomé Apóstol, is a church in Barva, Heredia, Costa Rica. The first church was established between 1568 and 1575, and dedicated to Saint Bartholomew; it is rumored to have been built on an indigenous burial ground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heredia and Barva.
Heredia
Photo: Rquesada, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Heredia region of the Central Valley of Costa Rica offers much for the visitor in downtown Heredia, and in many of the towns around Heredia, particularly in the north mountains, like Barva, San Rafael, San Isidro, where there are many coffee plantations and fresh air year round.
Barva
Town
Photo: Tillor87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barva is a district of the Barva canton, in the Heredia province of Costa Rica. The city is known for having a nice mix of rural and metropolitan landscape.
Santa Bárbara de Heredia
Town
Photo: Victor Quirós A, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santa Bárbara is one of the six districts that make up the canton of Santa Bárbara, Costa Rica. The district of Santa Bárbara is commonly referred to as Santa Bárbara de Heredia, and is the seat of the municipality of Santa Bárbara, and therefore awarded the title of city. Santa Bárbara de Heredia is situated 4½ km northwest of Barva.
Barva
- Category: canton of Costa Rica
- Location: Barva, Heredia Province, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Barva” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بارفا”
- Asturian: “Barva”
- Asturian: “cantón de Barva”
- Belarusian: “Барва”
- Belarusian: “Кантон Барва”
- Cebuano: “Cantón de Barva”
- Chinese: “Barva Kūn”
- Chinese: “巴爾瓦縣”
- Dutch: “Barva”
- French: “Barva”
- Georgian: “ბარვა (კანტონი)”
- Georgian: “ბარვა”
- Hebrew: “ברבה”
- Italian: “cantone di Barva”
- Italian: “Cantone di Barva”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Barva Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barva”
- Norwegian: “Barva”
- Russian: “Барва”
- Spanish: “Barva”
- Spanish: “Cantón de Barva”
- Swedish: “Cantón de Barva”
- Vietnamese: “Barva”
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