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The capital city of the region of Alajuela is Alajuela in Costa Rica. It is in addition the name of the district that takes in the city. Alajuela serves as the center for the region of Alajuela, a region much bigger than the district. It is the place of birth of Juan Santamaría, the nationwide hero of Costa Rica. It focuses the Juan Santamaría intercontinental Airport, the major airport serving Costa Rica, which is placed 3 kilometers south of the metropolis

In the pre-Columbian period the land that today matches to the Canton of Alajuela was a component of the supposed Kingdom Huetar of Occident, which was populated by natives, who to the early stages of the conquest were compliant of the Chief Grabito.
1650 was approach by the first Spanish pioneers, who took the unrefined grounds of the area. The first instance that the name of The Lajuela was cited is in the set of rules of Cartago, in the authentication of Mrs Juana Vera y Sotomayor, widow of the largest Sergeant García Ramiro Corajo approved in 1657. later on in a writing of requirement established in 1864 it turns to talk about the place that they name of The Lajuela within the Valley of Barva, in close proximity to the river Canoas.
In 1777 the neighbors of The Ciruelas and Lajuela prior to the obligation to shift to Villa Vieja which is today’s Heredia, asked for to build a public short-term oratory which is recognized in the house of Don Dionysius Oconitrillo, of Spanish source, 30 meters toward the north of where these days one finds The Cathedral of Alajuela.
past increases the inhabitants of five presented quarters then: Rio Grande, Puás, Ciruelas, La Lajuela and Targuaz, the citizens faced hardships to exercise their religious obligations, so they ask for the Bishop of Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Monsignor don Esteban Lorenzo de Tristán, authorization to put up a parish and a community oratory.

In agreement with The Constitution disseminated during the Spanish Parliament of Cadiz at Spain in May 19, 1812, the earliest Town hall of Alajuela began working in 1813. On date of December 18 of the identical year, the section La Lajuela got hold of the designation of Town and it was named a Villa Hermosa, then it was known as Saint Juan Nepomuceno de Alajuela and as a final point the designation of city was settled to it, on November 20, 1824 safeguarding the name of Alajuela until our days.
Alajuela is in addition the hometown of one of the most admired soccer teams of the nation, Liga Deportiva Alajuelense soccer guild.

The chief exports are tobacco, sugar-cane, corn, beans, coffee, citrus fruits for example the strawberries; the tubers, similar to yucca, flowers and decorative plants. Also the poultry farming is practiced, it takes care and breeds different kinds of the birds, the beekeeping where you take care and breed of the bees the “porcicultura” the breeding and taking care of pigs, and the milk production