In 1613 San Bartolomé de Barva was erected, but in 1824, the neighbors decided to change the saint and it was erected as Asunción de Barva. The 1888 earthquake left the church in ruins. Curiously, the image of the Assumption was turned on its back on its altar and that of Saint Bartholomew remained upright, on the ruins and the neighbors considered it in a "protective attitude." Since then, the San Bartolomé festivities are very brilliant with their traditional nightly dance until reveille with people in a festive atmosphere in the streets with Creole music where fun happily reigns.
Barva is the birthplace of artists and craftsmen famous for its colonial heritage.
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Belén, Heredia, Costa Rica

On December 24, Monsignor Anselmo Llorente gave mass in the so-called Villa de San Antonio and then went into exile, upon being expelled by the country's government. A year later, upon his return, also on December 24, he again gave mass in the same place. It was then that the neighbors determined the name Belén for his cantonship.
Belén is a place of immense layers of underground water that even supplies the population of Puerto Puntarenas, since when the Railway was built the aqueduct was also built.
With five or more star hotels and luxurious and private clubs, Belén is also an industrial area with few agricultural mini-farms. Here there was a settlement for cart drivers who brought their carts harmoniously painted and loaded with coffee. Here was a place to rest overnight on your route to the port of Puntarenas. Those were the times of the night parade of carts transporting people and each herdsman with his flashlight on.

It is important to note that each cart had its own sound given the woods used by carpenters in the construction of wheels. In 1978, Doña Emilia Prieto, writer and artist of vernacular singing and who was a resident of Guararí de Heredia, in one of her works stated that "there were, and are not, two identical painted carts. Special attention was paid to the painted geometry on the wheel. It was a pleasure to listen to the sounds of those carts when two or three were heading together.

When the day is no longer a day
and the night has not yet come
-blurred profiles,
blue sky with tremulous lights-
along the routes of the dream
the carts are rolling.
Julián Marchena wrote

And Aquileo J. Echeverría, remembering a popular saying about mysteries and ghosts, wrote:
"Suddenly a screeching sound was heard
I started to stop my ear
and I saw that on the way
"There was only one cart walking."

Also in the last century Domitilo Abarca wrote:
I'm going to sell my oxen:
my oxen so tame,
very good team;
little oxen like this
that goes so that never
I will find others again
throughout the earth.

And José Antonio Gutiérrez with Olegario, the name of the radio and television personality in the mid and late 20th century, made love comparisons like the one he said;
"Just like my oxes yoke
united by the yoke of a great love,
we pull the cart of illusions...
till die.
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Flores, Heredia, Costa Rica

The neighbors chose the surname by Doctor Juan José Flores to perpetuate it in the name of his canton, for being Mr. Flores. a driver of progress and development heredians. It was a town dedicated to coffee cultivation that gave way their farmlands to cement and concrete constructions; mainly because it has two very large neighbors: the cities Alajuela and Heredia. It is the smallest canton in the country.

Among the beauties of the place are the old houses and its granite church.
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San Isidro, Heredia, Costa Rica

"Saca de agua (Take out water)" they once called these places in colonial times and, even today, it continues to be a true "saca de agua" because its underground aquifers provide water to its neighbors, including various sectors of the City of San José.
According to a popular saying compiled through interviews with people over sixty years of age for the television program "Costa Rica is like this" in 1978, ecclesiastical authorities, through a raffle among several names of saints, the one favored was the patron saint of Madrid, Spain.

This was the land of the Indian chief Cacique Yorustí. Church It dates back to 1895. This city seems to be embedded in the Cordillera Central Volcanic, near Cerro Zurquí. This hill has a tunnel through which the road passes that connects the City of San José with the City of Puerto Limón in the Caribbean Sea.
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Sarapiquí, Puerto Viejo

In documents from the year 1640, the name Sarapiquí River appears, tributary of the San Juan River of Nicaragua. Of the ten cantons that make up the province of Heredia, nine are located in the Central Valley of Costa Rica and, together, they add up to 558.74 square kilometers of territory. Sarapiquí, located north of the Central Volcanic Mountain Range, is 4 times larger; With 2,349.37 square kilometers, it is equivalent to three quarters of the province's territory. It is a land of producers and farmers who travel through the paths of the Angel Waterfall, the Peace Waterfall, the El Congo Lagoon and, of course, the Sarapiquí River.
Sarapiquí is a culturally recent region in the country since it was in the mid-20th century that the colonization process began. The population of Sarapiquí is made up of people with a very wide sociocultural variety. Some have asserted that the first settlers arrived from the San Carlos canton of the Alajuela Province, crossing the hills in front of the Arenal Volcano, exploiting and colonizing areas with great biological diversity, currently somewhat attenuated.

Later, the migratory movement was greater, not only did people come in order to have their own large farm for agriculture and livestock, but hundreds of families also arrived in search of work. They arrived from the Atlantic zone and the South zone; as well as from Guanacaste, the Central Valley and from areas beyond San Carlos, pinning their hopes on a new employment opportunity, a hard job that would bring them a stable, secure income.

Over time, communication routes and public services improved; The State invested in schools and cement to build; The only thing that was needed, according to popular saying, was more people for labor. With dairy farming, the economic boom was evident, so word spread that the area was promising and the migration was supported by relatives and people known to those who already lived there. Given such evidence, Sarapiquí is a melting pot of cultures. Tourists find families with Guanacaste roots who prepare exquisite chicheme in the vicinity of northern families with excellent recipes for preparing chicharrones, or Caribbean families with their original recipe for rice and beans. Everything comes together, and in the festivals the variety is obvious with its theater groups and committees concerned with music as a sociocultural expression, crafts, plastic arts, and organization.
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