Talk:San José (canton)

National Capital District proposal
This article has been subject to a major edition change. Someone rename San José Canton article as "National Capital District of Costa Rica". This person (MRDU88, who doesn't have an edited profile and because of his edited contributions seems to be Dominican or Spaniard) assumes "the government has a project to change the name of San José Canton to National Capital District for 2009, and doesn't cite any reference about it. I've been checking several newspapers and even official documents, and I didn't find such a proposal, and of course if there is a project like that, this is not official. More important than that, I am Costa Rican, living in San José, and I never heard such a thing. I propose to rename the article to its former and current proper name, San José Canton. --JorgeRodriguez (talk) 20:13, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Municipality of San Jose vs. Canton of San Jose
Are the municipality and the canton the exact same entity/body of government, are are these two seperate administrative divisions? If they are one-and-the-same, that needs to be made a note of very early in the articles for both the municipality and the canton. --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:24, 2 December 2010 (UTC)

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Merge with San José, Costa Rica
I would like to propose merging the content of this article to San José, Costa Rica, and delete this one, the rationale is:


 * While still not stated in either article, San José city is the same as San José canton, by official governmental sources, the difference is the exclusion of a small industrial area in the Uruca district.
 * 2017 Territorial Division Law: División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica Decreto Ejecutivo N° 40184-MGP, del 9 de enero de 2017, publicado en el Alcance N° 52, a La Gaceta N° 48 del 8 de marzo de 2017
 * 1980 Executive Decree describing the perimeter: Decreto Ejecutivo 11562 del 27/05/1980
 * By looking at the above cited territorial division law from 2017, the canton itself is awarded the status of city, with each one of its districts being part of the city.
 * This in contrast to the other cantons of the country, where each one has only one cabecera (head) district acting as a city. (There are some pending city→district merges on other regions of the country). Therefore, the whole San José canton as a city and all of its districts are an exclusive case in its status as capital city of the country.
 * The San José, Costa Rica article is the most comprehensive of both, we can move what is missing here, there, and delete this one.

So, there is no point in keeping both separate entities when they are the same geographic and legal entity. Counterpoints? --Roqz (talk) 23:17, 5 October 2019 (UTC)