Ciudad Cortes

Puerto Cortes is the cantonal capital city and the primary district of the Osa canton , in the province of Puntarenas , Costa Rica . The town is a small river port on the banks of the Terraba River , 10 kilometers from its mouth in the Pacific Ocean , in the south of the usa. Due to its region and the wet weather function of the region, the city has suffered periodically from floods . N prehispanic instances it turned into inhabited through the Bruncas and Diquis that have been characterized through their excellent improvement of the art of stone spheres, leaving it as a legacy to the modern population. In the early nineteenth century, Chiricanos, who had been joined later, between 1912 and 1915, a few Costa Ricans,

formed the hamlet of El Pozo, today Puerto Cortés, in which they were engaged in rice cultivation and cattle. In 1910 colonization begins, with which the city starts to form. In 1955 the metropolis acquires the category of villa. In 1957 it became granted the title of town due to its fast growth. In the territorial division, for administrative purposes, regulation No. 20 of October 18, 1915, the fluvial port of El Pozo, seems as district of the fourth district of the Osa canton, port that turned into the principle and nearly best manner of verbal exchange, at that point To get to the vicinity from the port of Puntarenas, it changed into accomplished through boats that entered from the ocean with the aid of the mouth of the river Terraba .