Grecia
Grecia is an inviting small town to the west of San Jose in the province of Alajuela. It is mountainous with verdant forests and nearby coffee plantations and farms.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 16,700 residents
- Description: district in Grecia canton, Alajuela province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Grecia Centro”, “Grecia de Grecia”, “Grecia La Argentina”, and “Grecia, Costa Rica”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Our Lady of Mercy Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sarchí Norte.
Sarchí Norte
Town
Photo: Axxis10, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sarchí Norte is a district of the Sarchí canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. Sarchí Norte is situated 4½ km northwest of Grecia.
Grecia
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Grecia, Alajuela Province, Central Valley, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
10.073° or 10° 4′ 23″ northLongitude
-84.3119° or 84° 18′ 43″ westPopulation
16,700Elevation
1,003 metres (3,291 feet)United Nations Location Code
CR GMIOpen location code
762Q3MFQ+66OpenStreetMap ID
node 292598198OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Ukrainian—“Grecia” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “distritu de Grecia”
- Asturian: “Grecia”
- Belarusian: “Грэсія”
- Catalan: “Grecia”
- Chinese: “格雷西亞區”
- Dutch: “Grecia”
- French: “Grecia”
- German: “Grecia”
- Greek: “Γκρέσια”
- Italian: “Grecia”
- Kotava: “Grecia”
- Lithuanian: “Gresija”
- Moksha: “Грэция”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grecia”
- Norwegian: “Grecia”
- Polish: “Grecia”
- Spanish: “Grecia de Grecia”
- Spanish: “Grecia”
- Ukrainian: “Ґреція”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Grecia”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.