This research focuses on analyzing the development of the Curridabat community during the first half of the twentieth century, from a perspective linked to the micro-history and taking into account some assumptions of historical geography. Thus, the three central themes are the cantonal landscape characterization; the influence of the coffee crops and the rebuilding of the Catholic Church. The latter influenced to some degree, to stimulate the process of urbanization that would occur in the next decades, for the building functioned as a benchmark for local identities.

History; microhistory; Social Sciences; Curridabat; landscapes; coffee; Catholicism; urbanization