San José · Costa Rica
San Rafael Abajo population
27,419people · latest figure
San Rafael Abajo has a population of 27,419, making it the 16th largest place we list in Costa Rica. It is in San José.
San Rafael Abajo holds 0.53% of Costa Rica's 5,174,789 people. San José, the largest place we list there, is 12 times its size. The World Gazetteer published 27,419 for San Rafael Abajo in 2005 and GeoNames still carries that same figure, so there is no measured change to report.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Turrialba | Cartago Province | 28,955 |
| San Miguel | San José | 28,827 |
| San Pedro | San José | 27,477 |
| Quesada | Alajuela Province | 27,310 |
| Cartago | Cartago Province | 26,594 |
| Chacarita | Puntarenas Province | 26,354 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.