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El Tejar
Cartagotown
Total population
25,000
Demographic figures from INEC Costa Rica. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Overview
As a town in Cartago, Costa Rica, El Tejar occupies its own corner of the country. Around 25,000 people are recorded as living there in the most recent open data. The settlement sits at 9.844°, -83.937°, a equatorial location in the northern hemisphere. The locality observes Q5385 as its time zone. That works out to roughly 4,085 residents per square kilometre — tight, intensive urban land use. The town sits at a notable elevation of 1377 m and covers a small area of about 6.12 km². Based on its equatorial position, residents likely encounter hot and humid year-round with little seasonal temperature variation. The location receives about 1,615 kWh/m² of solar irradiance per year and sunshine for roughly 63% of daylight hours. Continue scrolling for population, climate, environmental and points-of-interest data drawn from public sources.
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History & geography
Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Most-observed species
- Clay-colored ThrushTurdus grayi Bonaparte, 1838 · Aves29,628
- Rufous-collared SparrowZonotrichia capensis (P.L.S.Müller, 1776) · Aves28,185
- Rufous-tailed HummingbirdAmazilia tzacatl (de la Llave, 1833) · Aves23,598
- Blue-gray TanagerThraupis episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves23,408
- Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves23,217
- Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus Vieillot, 1819 · Aves23,205
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves22,976
- White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves21,162
Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Earthquake history
Most recent
- M 4.3 — 2026-08-017 km SE of Orosi, Costa Rica
- M 5.2 — 2026-07-0718 km NW of Jacó, Costa Rica
- M 4.1 — 2026-07-034 km SSE of San Rafael Abajo, Costa Rica
- M 3.2 — 2026-05-164 km SE of Jacó, Costa Rica
- M 3.2 — 2026-05-1410 km SSW of Jacó, Costa Rica
- M 4.4 — 2026-05-144 km SE of Jacó, Costa Rica
Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).
Photos
Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
Nearby places in Cartago
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
Nearby airports
Public attention
Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
Books about this place
Recent natural events nearby
Ground air-quality sensors
Recently spotted species
Events
Gallery
Sources
- • USGS Earthquake Catalog (global feed)
- • GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image