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Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
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About Canas

Canas is the 6th canton of the province of Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It covers a place of ​​682.20 km². Its head is the homonymous city of Canas. According to the 2011 National Census, the populace of the canton turned into 26,201 population, of which, 8.1% become born overseas.

The same census highlights that there had been 7,172 occupied dwellings, of which, 54.8% were in true condition and there had been problems of overcrowding in 7.8% of the dwellings. 80.0% of its inhabitants lived in city areas. This canton changed into inhabited by way of the unique corobicíes, which had been led by means of the cacique Corobici. These Aborigines occupied the place among the Lajas and Tenorio rivers. The vicinity turned into found by means of Gil González Dávila in 1522, wherein the friar Martin de Bonilla in 1562 evangelized among 600 to 700 natives. In 1751 Monsignor Pedro Agustín Morel de Santa Cruz, Bishop of Nicaragua and Costa Rica, made the 8th pastoral go to to the Province of Costa Rica.

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