Alajuela
Alajuela is a city in the Central Valley of Costa Rica, near San José. It is not to be confused with Alajuela Province, which extends north from the city of Alajuela to North Costa Rica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 50,000 residents
- Description: district in Alajuela canton, and city of Alajuela province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Alajuela District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto and Juan Santamaría International Airport.
Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto
Stadium
Photo: JuanJoséLP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Estadio Alejandro Morera Soto is a football stadium in El Llano neighborhood of Alajuela, Costa Rica, which is the home of Liga Deportiva Alajuelense, one of the most successful football clubs from Costa Rica.
Juan Santamaría International Airport
Aerodrome
Juan Santamaría International Airport is the primary international airport serving San José, the capital of Costa Rica. The airport is located in Alajuela Province, 20 kilometres northwest of downtown San José.
Alajuela
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Alajuela, Alajuela Province, Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
10.0165° or 10° 0′ 60″ northLongitude
-84.2139° or 84° 12′ 50″ westPopulation
50,000Elevation
955 metres (3,133 feet)United Nations Location Code
CR AJUOpen location code
762Q2Q8P+JCOpenStreetMap ID
node 275730904OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Alajuela” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألاخويلا”
- Armenian: “Ալախուելա”
- Asturian: “Alajuela”
- Asturian: “distritu de Alajuela”
- Basque: “Alajuela barrutia”
- Basque: “Alajuela”
- Belarusian: “Алахуэла”
- Bengali: “আলাজুলা”
- Catalan: “Alajuela”
- Cebuano: “Alajuela (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Alajuela”
- Chinese: “阿拉胡埃拉”
- Croatian: “Alajuela”
- Czech: “Alajuela”
- Danish: “Alajuela”
- Dutch: “Alajuela”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الاخويلا”
- Finnish: “Alajuela”
- French: “Alajuela”
- French: “district d’Alajuela”
- German: “Alajuela”
- Greek: “Αλαχουέλα”
- Gujarati: “અલાજુએલા”
- Hebrew: “אלחואלה”
- Hindi: “एलहुएला”
- Hungarian: “Alajuela”
- Indonesian: “Alajuela”
- Italian: “Alajuela”
- Japanese: “アラフエラ”
- Kannada: “ಅಲಾಜುವೆಲಾ”
- Korean: “알라후엘라”
- Kotava: “Alajuela”
- Latvian: “Alahvela”
- Lithuanian: “Alachuela”
- Luxembourgish: “Alajuela”
- Malay: “Alajuela”
- Marathi: “अलाजुला”
- Moksha: “Алахуэла”
- Northern Frisian: “Alajuela”
- Northern Sami: “Alajuela”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alajuela”
- Norwegian: “Alajuela”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Alajuela”
- Persian: “آلاخوئلا”
- Persian: “الاجویلا”
- Polish: “Alajuela”
- Portuguese: “Alajuela”
- Quechua: “Alajuela”
- Romanian: “Alajuela”
- Russian: “Аладжуела”
- Russian: “Алахуэла”
- Russian: “округ Алахуэла”
- Scots: “Alajuela”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alajuela”
- Silesian: “Alajuela”
- Sinhala: “අලජුඑලා”
- Slovak: “Alajuela”
- Slovenian: “Alajuela”
- Spanish: “Alajuela”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Alajuela”
- Swedish: “Alajuela”
- Tamil: “ஆலாஜூயேலா”
- Tatar: “Алахвела”
- Telugu: “అలజ్యేలా”
- Thai: “อาลาฮูเอลา”
- Turkish: “Alajuela”
- Ukrainian: “Алахуела”
- Urdu: “الاخویلا”
- Vietnamese: “Alajuela”
- Volapük: “Alajuela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alajuela, Alajuela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Alajuela”
- Welsh: “Alajuela”
- “Alajuela”
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