Los Chiles

Los Chiles is the capital city of the canton of Los Chiles inside the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is also the name of the distrito that consists of the town. The district of Los Chiles covers an area of 535.93 km² and has a populace of 11,064. The city lies at an elevation of 43 meters above sea level at the San Carlos Plain in northern Costa Rica, 14 kilometers southeast of San Carlos in Nicaragua, 97 kilometers northwest of Ciudad Quesada, 175 kilometers from the provincial capital metropolis of Alajuela, and 198 kilometers from the national capital town of San Jose.

Los Chiles became originally settled with the aid of fishermen and others who worked on the close by Río San Juan in Nicaragua. It became granted the identify of ciudad through a regulation of May four, 1970. During the 1980s, it was a strategic area on an critical supply route for the Contras fighting to overthrow the Sandinista authorities in Nicaragua, and all through that point navy guys from the USA were a commonplace sight on the streets on the town.