Cartago

Cartago is a city in 's . It used to be the national capital before that honor went to San José and is one of the few places in the country where more than a handful colonial era buildings have survived to the present day.
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  • Type: City with 110,000 residents
  • Description: city in Costa Rica
  • Also known as: “Cartago, Costa Rica”, “La Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad de Cartago”, “Nuevo Cartago”, and “Santiago de Cartago”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza Ivankovich and Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels, Cartago.

Stadium
Photo: Cartago CR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Estadio Jose Rafael Fello Meza Ivankovich is a multi-use in Cartago, named after Costa Rican footballer Fello Meza. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of C.S.

Church
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The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles is a Roman Catholic basilica in , located in the city of Cartago and dedicated to the Virgen de los Pardos, officially known as Virgen de los Ángeles.

Hospital
is a hospital in Cartago, Costa Rica. It is named after Dr. Maximiliano Peralta Jimenez who graduated from Jefferson Medical College in in 1894. It has 633 beds but often suffers from equipment shortages.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Tejar de El Guarco.

Town
El Tejar is a district and the head city of the canton, in the province of .

Cartago

Latitude
9.8645° or 9° 51′ 52″ north
Longitude
-83.9207° or 83° 55′ 14″ west
Population
110,000
Elevation
1,440 metres (4,724 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CR CAR
Open location code
66XRV37H+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13232135222
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3624370
Wiki­data ID
Q30617
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Welsh—“Cartago” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካርታጎ”
  • Arabic: “كارتاغو، كوستاريكا”
  • Arabic: “كارتاغو”
  • Armenian: “Կարտագո”
  • Asturian: “Cartago”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kartago”
  • Basque: “Cartago”
  • Belarusian: “Картага”
  • Bengali: “কার্টাগো”
  • Bengali: “কার্তাগো”
  • Catalan: “Cartago”
  • Cebuano: “Cartago (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Cartago”
  • Chinese: “卡塔戈”
  • Croatian: “Cartago”
  • Czech: “Cartago”
  • Danish: “Cartago”
  • Dutch: “Cartago”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كارتاجو”
  • Esperanto: “Cartago”
  • Estonian: “Cartago”
  • Finnish: “Cartago”
  • French: “Cartago, Costa Rica”
  • French: “Cartago”
  • German: “Cartago”
  • Greek: “Καρτάγο”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્ટગો”
  • Gujarati: “કાર્ટાગો”
  • Hausa: “Cartago”
  • Hebrew: “קרטגו”
  • Hindi: “कारटैगो”
  • Hindi: “कार्टगो”
  • Hindi: “कार्टागो”
  • Indonesian: “Cartago”
  • Italian: “Cartago”
  • Japanese: “カルタゴ (コスタリカ)”
  • Japanese: “カルタゴ”
  • Javanese: “Cartago”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಟಗೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Картаго”
  • Kirghiz: “Картаго”
  • Korean: “카르타고 (코스타리카)”
  • Korean: “카르타고”
  • Kotava: “Cartago”
  • Ladino: “Cartago”
  • Ladino: “Kartago”
  • Latvian: “Kartago”
  • Lithuanian: “Kartagas”
  • Malay: “Cartago”
  • Marathi: “कार्टगो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cartago”
  • Northern Sami: “Cartago”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cartago”
  • Norwegian: “Cartago”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cartago”
  • Oromo: “Cartago”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਟਾਗੋ”
  • Persian: “کارتاگو، کاستاریکا”
  • Polish: “Cartago”
  • Portuguese: “Cartago, Costa Rica”
  • Portuguese: “Cartago”
  • Portuguese: “Nuevo Cartago”
  • Pushto: “کارتاګو”
  • Quechua: “Cartago”
  • Romanian: “Cartago, Costa Rica”
  • Romanian: “Cartago”
  • Russian: “Картаго”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cartago, Kostarika”
  • Sinhala: “කර්ටෝගෝ”
  • Sinhala: “කාර්ටගෝ”
  • Slovak: “Cartago”
  • Somali: “Cartago”
  • Spanish: “Cartago (Costa Rica)”
  • Spanish: “Cartago”
  • Spanish: “Nuevo Cartago”
  • Spanish: “Santiago de Cartago”
  • Swahili: “Cartago”
  • Swedish: “Cartago, Costa Rica”
  • Swedish: “Cartago”
  • Tajik: “Картаго”
  • Tamil: “கார்டாகோ”
  • Tamil: “கார்தகோ”
  • Tatar: “Картаго (Коста-Рика)”
  • Tatar: “Картаго”
  • Telugu: “కార్టాగో”
  • Thai: “การ์ตาโก”
  • Thai: “รัฐมีนัสเชไรส์”
  • Turkish: “Cartago”
  • Turkish: “Kartago”
  • Ukrainian: “Картаго”
  • Urdu: “کارتاگو، کوسٹاریکا”
  • Uzbek: “Kartago”
  • Vietnamese: “Cartago”
  • Volapük: “Cartago”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cartago, Cartago”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cartago, Costa Rica”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cartago”
  • Welsh: “Cartago, Costa Rica”
  • Welsh: “Cartago”
  • “Cartago”

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