The Municipal Executive was Sancho Felix Gallo and the City Clerk: Jose Luis Fallas Leitón. On Augwas held the first meeting of the Council of La Cruz, composed of the following owners: Mr Piedad Loáiciga Salgado, President: Victor Manuel Hernandez Ortega, Vice President: Carlos Manuel Rodriguez Campos. Later, in Act No 4574 of May 4, 1970, promulgated the Municipal Code, third article, that confirmed that this villa was now a City. In the government of José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, on July 23, 1969, law No 4354, was granted the title of Villa of the town of La Cruz, head of canton set up with that purpose. The pipe was opened in the year 1946, in the administration of former president Teodoro Picado Michalski. During the archbishop Monsignor Víctor Manuel Sanabria Martínez, second Archbishop of Costa Rica, in 1949, the parish was erected, with devotion to the Holy Cross, which is currently suffrage of the Diocese of Tilarán of the Ecclesiastical Province of Costa Rica. Law No 20, the 18 th of October 1915, enacted the territorial division for administrative purposes, in which La Cruz was the third district of Liberia´s canton.The first chapel was built in 1923, located at the northeast corner of the existing park. The high school named Liceo La Cruz began teaching in 1969 during the government of José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, as a supplementary educational secondary school, at first in the day and then at night, located at the school, in 1973 opened the current premises. In 1953, a new school was built called Salvador Villar Muñoz. In the government administration of Ascensión Esquivel Ibarra, in 1906 the school was located fifty meters east of the existing lookout, built by the Instituto Costarricense de Turismo (National Tourism Chamber). On March 20, 1856, our troops fought their first battle against the filibusters of William Walker in the Hacienda Santa Rosa, defeating and expelling the invaders from our territory. In the second half of the nineteenth century came to this region, the first farmers from Rivas, Nicaragua, beginning the formation of ranches. He also went through the region of Perafán de Ribera in his journey towards Cartago. In September 1562 Juan Vazquez de Coronado passed by this area too, bringing cattle and horses from León. In 1561 Don Juan de Cavallon, from Granada passed through this area reaching the Central Valley in his expedition. The region was discovered by Don Gil Gonzalez Davila in 1522, on his march to another province of the Chorotegas, which was under the authority of the chief of Nicarao (today known as Nicaragua). In pre-Columbian times the area currently known as the canton de La Cruz, was part of a province of indians called Chorotegas whose domains ranged from the Nicoya Peninsula to the Lake of Nicaragua and were made up of several villages or domains. The best known are: Junquillal, Cuajiniquil, Jobo, Rajada, Salinas Bay and Manzanillo Santa Rosa itself has some of the most beautiful beachesof Costa Rica and we could considered them almost virgin since its access is very difficult by land. This viewpoint, and the Santa Rosa National Park are its biggest tourist attractions, where the Casona de Santa Rosa, preserved since the mid nineteenth century, is a monument to the history of the country. La Cruz is located on the shores of what is known as the viewpoint La Cruz, from where there are wonderful and breathtaking sunsets, with the sun hiding in the Pacific Ocean, under the broad horizon. La Cruz bounded on the north with Nicaragua and is where the main border crossing is ( Peñas Blancas). La Cruz is the tenth canton of Guanacaste province, established since 1969. Maybe you never heard the story? William Walker and his army were defeated in a colorful, bloody, pathetic story Santa Rosa, an old fort which is now a national monument, marks the spot where Juan Santamaria and his men stopped an armed invasion by the USA. It’s one of Costa Rica’s treasures, as it played an important role in the country’s history, and nowadays is a popular spot for surfers and nature lovers.
La Cruz is a small town north of Guanacaste next to the Nicaraguan border.
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