Although Heredia is Costa Rica’s territorially smallest province, its capital city is located in the Greater Metropolitan Area and its border, on the north, is the border with Nicaragua. It’s of great importance for the Costa Rican economy.
Its cities, with remarkable influence of the architecture and the colonial customs and an economic activity mainly concentrated in the coffee culture, have been giving space to the great residential, commercial and industrial developments.
But the province continues to be an important producer of coffee, as well as beef and milk, banana, pineapple and citrus, and among other crops, palm hearts, beans, mushrooms and sugarcane.
In Heredia are also the Metropolitan Free Zone, base of operations of large transnational and multinational companies, and the National Center of Supply and Distribution of Food.