Sarchi

Sarchi is the capital metropolis of the canton of Valverde Vega also known as Sarchí in the province of Alajuela in Costa Rica. The district of Sarchí covers an area of 15.11 km², consisting of the crucial location of the metropolis. It has a populace of 6,912. The district of Sarchí Sur covers a place of 6.51 km² and has a population of 4,659.

The city lies at an elevation of one thousand meters above sea stage on the slopes of the Cordillera Central at the jap fringe of the Central Valley. It is 27 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital metropolis of Alajuela, and forty six kilometers from the national capital city of San Jose. Originally become settled via Ambrosio del Jesus Alfaro Avilés in the first half of XIX century, the earliest reference to it in 1836 The unique nahuatl name Sarchí approach potrero or open discipline used to maintain horses and cattle, the primary settlers located it in that condition, and surrounded by using tropical rain forest. Reference from Evly Inksetter, the first county historian.