LAND-USE CONDITION IN SAN VITO DISTRICT, COTO BRUS, PUNTARENAS

Abstract

San Vito is the first district of Coto Brus municipality in Puntarenas province. Because of its political condition, it can’t develop a land-use plan. It is a region that constitutes a geographic sub-province with an urban core in a widespread rural environment (142 km2), that needs a substitutive instrument for land use decision-making. A useful and practical tool is land-use condition, which comes from the comparison between land-use capacity and current land-use. In turn, this work makes a methodological effort and includes the land units system that analyses the biophysical variables of the land, to define homogenous units that will be useful in land-use planning.