San José, capital of Costa Rica, situated on a fertile and elevated plain between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific; grain, the vine, and many fruits are grown in the neighbourhood; flour-milling and distilling (Government works) are the principal town industries; there is a university.
Population (circa 1900) given as 19,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
San José * San Juan