Canton of Corredores

Corredores cantón Puntarenas Vista
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Historical Overview
In pre-Columbian times, the territory that currently corresponds to the canton of runners was inhabited by indigenous people of the so-called group of the Bruncas, which at the beginning of the conquest was the domain of the cacique Osa, who according to the story prepared by Don Andrés de Cereceda of the trip made by Don Gil González Dávila in 1522 was eight leagues (about 45 kilometers) from Punta Burica. In 1939 and 1940, a Lebanese immigrant, Don Ricardo Neily Jop, acquired an extensive real estate in the region and installed a kind of commissariat there; Later he sold parcels to merchants who established other businesses and services. At first, the place was an entertainment center for the workers of the Banana Company who worked on the farms located in Golfito, and later when the company began its banana activities, in 1945, in the Coto Valley, of the people who cultivated those lands. The first plumbing and electric lighting service was provided by the town of Don Ricardo Neily from 1953, the first through small networks and communal tubes connected to their own drinking sources and wells; and the other by means of a small power plant of its property.

Since 1955, a school operated in the theater owned by Mr. Ricardo Neily Jop. In 1961, the first school in the area was inaugurated on land donated by Mr. Ricardo during the government of Mr. Mario Echandi Jiménez, which is currently named Alberto Echandi Montero. The Liceo Ciudad Neily began its teaching activities in 1969, during the administration of Mr. José Joaquín Trejos Fernández.

Neily is a city, the head of the Corredores canton and its first district, Corredor, at the southern tip of the province of Puntarenas, Costa Rica.

In Executive Decree No. 38 of June 16, 1961, the settlement named Villa Neily constituted a hamlet of the third district, La Cuesta, of the canton of Golfito. In the administration of Mr. José Joaquín Trejos Fernández on April 27, 1970, in Executive Decree No. 24, the title of villa was granted to the population of Neily, head of the Corredor district, created at that time as the fourth district of the canton of Golfito. Subsequently, on October 19, 1973, in the second government of Mr. José Figueres Ferrer, Law No. 5373 was promulgated, which established the canton of Corredores and conferred the category of city upon the villa.

The current church was built in 1966, dedicated to Saint Martha. In the archbishopric of Monsignor Román Arrieta Villalobos, fifth archbishop of Costa Rica, in 1985, the parish was erected; which is currently a suffragan of the Diocese of San Isidro de El General of the ecclesiastical province of Costa Rica.

In Law No. 5373 of October 19, 1973, Corredores was established as the tenth canton of the province of Puntarenas, with three districts. Villa Neily was designated as its head. The name of the canton has its origin in the toponym of the Corredor River, which rises on the slopes of the Brunqueña range, a spur of the Talamanca mountain range; a denomination given to the fourth district of Golfito when it was established in 1970. In the bill for the creation of the canton, mention was made that the residents of the fourth district, Corredores, requested the foundation of that new administrative unit; possibly by error the name was changed at that time, which was then preserved for the canton when the law was promulgated, while the first district was assigned the name Corredor.

On August 11, 1974, the first session of the Corredores Council was held; composed of the regular council members, Mr. Fidel Ángel Calderón Trejos, president; Mr. José Angulo Guadamuz, vice president, Faustino Jiménez Rojas, Isaías Marchena Moraga, and Rafael Ramírez Molina. The municipal executive was Mr. Antonio Barrantes Badilla and the municipal secretary was Miss Sonia Arroyo Barboza.

Corredores

Corredores