Puntarenas (canton)

Puntarenas
Canton
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Puntarenas canton
Country	Costa Rica
Province	Puntarenas
Creation	7 December 1848[1]
Head city	Puntarenas
Districts	Districts Puntarenas Pitahaya Chomes Lepanto Paquera Manzanillo Guacimal Barranca Isla del Coco Cóbano Chacarita Chira Acapulco El Roble Arancibia
Government
• Type	Municipality
• Body	Municipalidad de Puntarenas
Area
• Total	1,842.33 km2 (711.33 sq mi)
Elevation	169 m (554 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	115,019
• Density	62/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Canton code	601
Website	www.puntarenas.go.cr

Puntarenas is a canton in the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica.^[2][3] The head city is Puntarenas.

Puntarenas was created on 7 December 1848 by decree 167.^[1]

Puntarenas has an area of 1,842.33 km²^[4] and a mean elevation of 169 metres.^[2]

The canton includes areas on both sides of the Gulf of Nicoya. The southern portion of the Nicoya Peninsula is also in the canton, including the popular tourist areas of Tambor, Montezuma and Malpais.

The canton of Puntarenas is subdivided into the following districts:

• Puntarenas
• Pitahaya
• Chomes
• Lepanto
• Paquera
• Manzanillo
• Guacimal
• Barranca
• Isla del Coco
• Cóbano
• Chacarita
• Chira
• Acapulco
• El Roble
• Arancibia

Monte Verde was the ninth district of the canton, on 29 September 2021 it was segregated to become a canton on its own, the Monteverde canton, the twelfth of Puntarenas province and eighty third of the country.

For the 2011 census, Puntarenas had a population of 115,019 inhabitants.^[7]

The canton is covered by the following road routes:

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