La Fortuna de San Carlos
The first inhabitant that had the District of La Fortuna arrived to these lands in the year 1930, it was the Martial Nicaraguan Jarquin, seated initially in what is today known as Treasury the Fortuna River.
In 1932 other inhabitants arrived among them Elias Koper, Alberto Quesada, Juana Vargas Ricardo Quirós, Jose Garro, Rufino and Isolina Quesada, Juan Ledesma, Red Porfirio, Julio Murillo and others that little by little left seating, product of the fame the lands acquired.
Initially this community was a village of the District of The Angeles of San Ramon and it was until the year 1950 when along whit La Tigra, was concreted a movement that concludes with a plesvicito where for their will the inhabitants decide to belong in the future to San Carlos' Canton.
This community was known by the name of the Burio, and because of the quality of the lands, the neighbors changed name and called "La Fortuna".
The first residents of the thirties classified the Area like one of the most dangerous. Eight of the first inhabitants mentioned got killed, among them Lupicio Quesada who died in an intent to arrive to those lands.
In the year 1952 together with the Tigra, La Fortuna was declared district number seven of San Carlos. It is starting from this date when the district begins to flourish and little by little becomes one of the most important at productive level of the area.
In 1968 the Arenal Volcano, which until then was an inoffensive hill, erupted and buried the community of Pueblo Nuevo and killing more than a hundred inhabitants. The lands of the District lost a lot of value and many of their residents left the place. However, little by little, spectaculared eruptions of the Volcano attracted tourists and with asphaltation of the highway in the year 1982, La Fortuna begins to experience a transformation, passing from an agricultural activity to the tourism, that nowadays is the one main generator of resources in the area.
This is the way La Fortuna was born:
The district of La Fortuna was founded by Mr. Elias Koper, who arrived to the area in the year 1932, other founders were Red Porfirio, Martial Jarquin, Alberto Quesada, Juana Vargas, Jose Garro, Rufino and Isolina Quesada, Juan Ledezma, Julio Murillo and other.
La Fortuna is the district number seven of San Carlos' canton, it is located to 46 kilometers of Ciudad Quesada, embraces an area of 225 kilometers squares and has a population of 5.707 inhabitants.
Education
La Fortuna has a school and great quantity of schools at the moment in all the villages, for their blessing of being a district of enormous tourist attractiveness, the population has had to go getting ready in different fields to receive the national tourists and foreigners.
Production
It's potential at the moment is the cattle raising, although already the tourism is displacing him as source of revenues, but to have highly productive lands in La Fortuna you can cultivate almost everything.
Limits
La Fortuna limits whit Monterrey, Tilaran, La Tigra, Monte Verde and Florencia.
Comforts
In this district there are all the comforts that a person needs for living, also this town offers Hotels of high quality to the visitors, Restaurants and it's beautiful natural attractiveness such as the Arenal Volcano, the Arenal lake, La Fortuna Waterfall, among others tours.
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Loved La Fortuna itself, had a great whitewater rafting trip! However the hostels were TERRIBLE!
A group of 5 college students, including me, were in La Fortuna for a few days. We were met at the bus stop by Mario, from Cabinas Jerry, who was pushy enough to convince us to go with him. After a day of being harrassed to buy tours, and, when we bought tours somewhere less invasive, ignored, insulted, yelled at, and given a raise in rates by said Mario who was unbelievably angry that we had betrayed his "friendship," we went to Gringo Pete's Too, hoping to find another place to stay. The man at the window told us no rooms were available and when we said ok and were about to walk away, started saying he did have rooms but we should stay where we were last night and we couldn't try to be friends with this staff after being friends with Mario.
After explaining to him that we were being harrassed and that three 20-something girls were incredibly uncomfortable and, frankly, scared by Mario, he told us that was our own problem. Two of us started crying and he told us to go away, that we had our own free will and we should've asked him before.
What kind of man turns down offering a safe haven to a few scared girls on the basis of a personal affront when they don't even know him, and what kind of business plan was this anyway?
I was so angry, hurt, and incredibly disappointed by the incredibly juvenile staff. I can't believe anyone, especially a couple of young girls, could be treated this way by any person, particularly someone in hospitality. Beware!