en Huacas District

Huacas
Huacas
District
	Huacas district
	Huacas Huacas district location in Costa Rica
	Coordinates: 10°02′09″N 85°21′34″W / 10.0357253°N 85.35947°W
Country	Costa Rica
Province	Guanacaste
Canton	Hojancha
Creation	23 July 1999
Area
• Total	31.49 km2 (12.16 sq mi)
Elevation	570 m (1,870 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	707
• Density	22/km2 (58/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−06:00
Postal code	51104

Huacas is a district of the Hojancha canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.^[1]^[2]

History

Huacas was created on 23 July 1999 by Decreto Ejecutivo 28027-G. Segregated from Hojancha.^[2]

Huacas has an area of 31.49 km²^[3] and an elevation of 570 metres.^[1]

Administrative center of the district is the village of Huacas.

Other villages in the district are Avellana, Pita Rayada, Río Blanco Oeste and Tres Quebradas.

Historical population
Census	Pop.	±% p.a.
2000	697	—
2011	707	+0.13%
2022	726	+0.24%
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos^[4] Centro Centroamericano de Población^[5]

For the 2011 census, Huacas had a population of 707 inhabitants. ^[6]

^ ^a ^b "Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República N°41548-MGP". Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (in Spanish). 19 March 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ ^a ^b División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica (PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional. 8 March 2017. ISBN 978-9977-58-477-5.
^ "Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
^ Centro Centroamericano de Población de la Universidad de Costa Rica. "Sistema de Consulta a Bases de Datos Estadísticas" (in Spanish).
^ "Censo. 2011. Población total por zona y sexo, según provincia, cantón y distrito". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.

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