Quesada
Ciudad Quesada is a city in the North Zone of Costa Rica. It is the capital city of the canton San Carlos in the province of Alajuela. Although Ciudad Quesada is the official name, it is commonly called San Carlos.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 42,000 residents
- Description: district in San Carlos canton, Alajuela province, Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Ciudad Quesada”, “Quesada City”, “Quesada de San Carlos”, “Quesada, San Carlos”, and “Villa Quesada”
Quesada
- Categories: district of Costa Rica and locality
- Location: Quesada, San Carlos, Alajuela Province, North Costa Rica, Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Latitude
10.3257° or 10° 19′ 32″ northLongitude
-84.43° or 84° 25′ 48″ westPopulation
42,000Elevation
616 metres (2,021 feet)United Nations Location Code
CR CQAOpen location code
762Q8HG9+7XOpenStreetMap ID
node 320100099OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Quesada” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կեսադա”
- Asturian: “distritu de Quesada”
- Asturian: “Quesada”
- Catalan: “Ciudad Quesada”
- Catalan: “Quesada”
- Cebuano: “Quesada”
- Chinese: “克薩達 (哥斯達黎加)”
- Chinese: “克薩達”
- Dutch: “Ciudad Quesada”
- Dutch: “Quesada”
- French: “Ciudad Quesada”
- German: “Quesada”
- Greek: “Σιουδάδ Κεσάδα”
- Hebrew: “קווסאדה”
- Italian: “Quesada”
- Japanese: “ケサダ”
- Kotava: “Ciudad Quesada”
- Lithuanian: “Kesada”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ciudad Quesada”
- Norwegian: “Ciudad Quesada”
- Polish: “Quesada”
- Russian: “Кесада”
- Spanish: “Ciudad Quesada”
- Spanish: “Quesada de San Carlos”
- Spanish: “Quesada”
- Swedish: “Ciudad Quesada”
- Ukrainian: “Сьюдад-Кесада”
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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 “Quesada”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 cr.