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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  • City with about 22,800 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,440 metres (4,710 feet)
  • Description: city in Costa Rica
  • Also known as
    “Cartago, Costa Rica”
    “La Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad de Cartago”
    “Nuevo Cartago”
    “Santiago de Cartago”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio José Rafael Fello Meza Ivankovich and Basilica of Our Lady of the Angels, Cartago.
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Estadio Jose Rafael "Fello" Meza Ivankovich…
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The Basílica de Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles…
is a hospital in Cartago, Costa Rica.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include El Tejar de El Guarco.
El Tejar is a district and the head city of the…

Cartago

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Latitude
9.8645° or 9° 51′ 52″ north
Longitude
-83.9207° or 83° 55′ 14″ west
UN/LOCODE
CR CAR
Open location code
66XRV37H+QP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 13232135222
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3624370
Wiki­data ID
Q30617

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: “કાર્ટાગો”
  • Hausa: “Cartago”
  • Hebrew: “קרטגו”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “کارتاگو”
  • 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: “කාර්ටගෝ”
  • Slovak: “Cartago”
  • Slovenian: “Cartago, Kostarika”
  • 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”

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