San Isidro District, El Guarco

El Guarco is a canton in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. The head city is in Tejar district.

Jardín is a district of the Dota canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

Cartago is a canton in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. The head city is Cartago.

The 1910 Costa Rica earthquakes were a series of destructive seismic events that affected Cartago, Costa Rica from 13 April to 4 May. The sequence began with a Ms  5.8 earthquake. The largest and most destructive in the sequence occurred on 4 May, measuring Ms  6.4. A total of 2,450 people were killed and the city of Cartago was severely affected.

Sombrero River–Navarro River Protected Zone (Spanish: Zona Protectora Río Sombrero-Río Navarro), is a protected area in Costa Rica, managed under the Central Conservation Area, it was created in 1984 by executive decree 15436-MAG.

San Cristóbal is a district of the Desamparados canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

The Lankester Botanical Gardens (also known as the Jardín Botánico Lankester or Charles H. Lankester Botanical Garden) are a set of gardens outside of Cartago, Costa Rica. The garden is open to the public, but is operated by the University of Costa Rica (UCR) as a research center and is a major center for orchid research in both Central America and the Caribbean.

Los Santos Wind Farm, (Spanish: Parque Eólico Los Santos) is a wind energy project located in Los Santos region of Costa Rica, alongside the Inter-American Highway (Route 2). It is operated by the local public utilities cooperative, Coopesantos, and generates 30% of their distributed energy. It has 15 wind turbines, at a height of 44 meters each, with an individual output of 0.85 MW, for a combined total of 12.75MW.

Los Santos Zone (Spanish: Zona de los Santos) is a mountainous region in the San José Province of Costa Rica, in the center-south of the country. It is also known in Spanish as Valle de los Santos or just Los Santos. It corresponds to a wide sector of a series of intermontane valleys composed by the cantons of Tarrazú, Dota and León Cortés Castro. The nearby districts of San Cristóbal and Frailes, both of Desamparados canton, are under the socioeconomic influence of the zone.

Santa Cruz is a district of the León Cortés Castro canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

Llanos de Santa Lucía formerly known as Santa Lucía is the youngest of the districts of the Paraíso canton, in the Cartago province of Costa Rica. It was established as the fifth district on 21 July 2004.

Lake Cachi (Spanish: Lago de Cachí) is an artificial lake in central Costa Rica created by the Cachí Dam (Represa de Cachí), an arch dam north of Tapantí National Park, to the east-southeast of Cartago in Cartago Province. The main town is Cachí, away from the east bank of the lake. Built in the 1970s, it was one of the first hydroelectric projects in Costa Rica. It has an installed capacity of 102 MW with three units of 34 MW capacity each (Vertical Francis turbines).The project became operational with the first unit commissioned in 1966, the second unit in 1967, and the third unit in 1978. The Reventazon River provides multiple benefits through the three dams built on it. Out of the three dams, Cachi Dam, not only provides power generation benefits but also controls floods, and offers recreational facilities in the Lake Cachi. The Rio Macho project on the upstream provides hydroelectric power and the downstream Birris power project also provides drinking water (40% of the metropolitan city’s water supply needs).The reservoir, in the Rio Reventazón, is an important supplier of electrical power to Costa Rica. It is operated by Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE).