Central Valley
Heredia Province
Heredia

Heredia

Heredia region of the 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.
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  • Type: City with 117,000 residents
  • Description: district in Heredia canton, and city of Heredia province, Costa Rica
  • Also known as: “Ciudad de Heredia”, “Ciudad Heredia”, “Heredia Centro”, “Heredia District”, “Heredia, Costa Rica”, and “Heridia”
Photo: Victor Quirós A, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eladio Rosabal Cordero Stadium and Hospital San Vicente de Paúl.

Photo: Alofaga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio Eladio Rosabal Cordero was a multi-purpose in Heredia, . The stadium held 8,700 people and opened in 1949. It was mostly used for football matches and was the home stadium of Herediano.

Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Museum
Photo: Rquesada, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in the district of Santa Lucía, just south of , . It is located in the former home of ex-president Alfredo González Flores.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Barva.

Town
Photo: Tillor87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a district of the canton, in the province of . The city is known for having a nice mix of rural and metropolitan landscape.

Heredia

Latitude
9.9982° or 9° 59′ 53″ north
Longitude
-84.117° or 84° 7′ 1″ west
Population
117,000
Elevation
1,173 metres (3,848 feet)
United Nations Location Code
CR HER
Open location code
66XQXVXM+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 275991117
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3623486
Wiki­data ID
Q30616
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Heredia” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيريذيا”
  • Arabic: “هيريديا، كوستاريكا”
  • Armenian: “Էրեդիա”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Heredia”
  • Asturian: “Heredia”
  • Basque: “Heredia barrutia”
  • Basque: “Heredia”
  • Belarusian: “Эрэдыя”
  • Bengali: “এরেদিয়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Ередия”
  • Catalan: “districte d’Heredia”
  • Catalan: “Heredia”
  • Cebuano: “Heredia (kapital sa lalawigan sa Costa Rica)”
  • Cebuano: “Heredia”
  • Chinese: “埃雷迪亚”
  • Chinese: “埃雷迪亞”
  • Croatian: “Heredia”
  • Czech: “Heredia”
  • Danish: “Heredia”
  • Dutch: “Heredia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ايريذيا”
  • Finnish: “Heredia, Costa Rica”
  • Finnish: “Heredia”
  • French: “Heredia”
  • Galician: “Heredia”
  • German: “Cubujuqui”
  • German: “Cubujuquí”
  • German: “Heredia”
  • Greek: “Ερεδία”
  • Greek: “Ερέδια”
  • Gujarati: “હેરેડિયા”
  • Gujarati: “હેરેડીયા”
  • Hebrew: “ארדיה”
  • Hindi: “हेरेडिया, कोस्टा रिका”
  • Hindi: “हेरेडिया”
  • Hungarian: “Heredia”
  • Indonesian: “Heredia”
  • Italian: “Heredia”
  • Japanese: “エレディア・コスタリカ”
  • Japanese: “エレディア”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆರೆಡಿಯಾ”
  • Korean: “에레디아”
  • Kotava: “Heredia”
  • Latvian: “Eredija”
  • Latvian: “Heredija”
  • Lithuanian: “Heredija”
  • Malay: “Heredia”
  • Marathi: “हेरेडिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Heredia (Costa Rica)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Heredia”
  • Northern Sami: “Heredia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Heredia”
  • Norwegian: “Heredia”
  • Persian: “هردیا (کاستاریکا)”
  • Persian: “هردیا”
  • Polish: “Heredia”
  • Portuguese: “Heredia, Costa Rica”
  • Portuguese: “Heredia”
  • Quechua: “Heredia”
  • Romanian: “Heredia”
  • Russian: “Эредиа”
  • Russian: “Эредия”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heredia, Kostarika”
  • Sinhala: “හෙරෙදියා”
  • Slovenian: “Heredia”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Heredia”
  • Spanish: “Heredia Centro”
  • Spanish: “Heredia”
  • Swedish: “Heredia”
  • Tamil: “ஹீரெடியா”
  • Tamil: “ஹீரேடியா”
  • Tatar: “Эредия”
  • Telugu: “హెరెడియా”
  • Thai: “เอเรเดีย”
  • Turkish: “Heredia”
  • Ukrainian: “Гулунбуір”
  • Ukrainian: “Ередія”
  • Urdu: “ایریدیا، کوسٹاریکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Heredia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Heredia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Francisco de Heredia”
  • “Heredia, Costa Rica”

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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 “Heredia”. Photo: Rquesada, CC BY-SA 3.0.