This province on the Central Plateau is known as the Land of the Flowers with a landscape full of picturesque little villages, old churches, adobe houses, shady plazas and, as you may guess , wonderful displays of flora and fauna: orchids, bromeliads and mosses, among others. Located in the occidental side of the Central Valley, it was the homeland of Huetares indians, who left it due to the spanish citizens expantion. In this time the spanish citizens had to walk 30 miles through the jungle to reach the chuch built in Cartago and they had to change their clothes to attend the mass. Thinking in those problems, many of them rather went to the local indian christian teaching to walk the distance to Cartago. To be according with the law, in 1705 a group of citizens went to Guatemala and asked for permission to follow receiving the teaching instead of go to Cartago but the Guatemala's Province Administrator, in order to keep the spanish separated to the indians decided to give them the authorization to build the parrish of ALVIRILLA, the first one built in this side of the Central Valley.

The city born in 1714 when the bishop Thiel decided to give the authorization of move the chuch from Alvirilla to Cubujuqui, according with the desires of Alfonso Fernández de Heredia, president of the Audience. The people to show their grateful change the name of the village to Heredia.

This province has many point of interest such as Coffee Tour of Cafe Britt, all the Vara Blanca Zone, Sarapiqui Touristical Area, Braulio Carrillo National Park with its Aerial Tram, Barva Volcano and many others.