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National Route 408 (Costa Rica)

national road route in Costa Rica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ96151865 ↗
Source-derived summary

National Tertiary Route 408, or just Route 408 (Spanish: Ruta Nacional Terciaria 408, or Ruta 408) is a National Road Route of Costa Rica, located in the Cartago province.

Description

In Cartago province the route covers Paraíso canton (Orosi district), Jiménez canton (Pejibaye district).

History

Landslides are common in this route.

Editorial summary

“National Route 408 (Costa Rica)” enters the record as national road route in Costa Rica. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what National, Route and Costa can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 51-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around National, Route and Costa.
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Why this record matters

“National Route 408 (Costa Rica)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, National, Route and Costa provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q96151865. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “National Route 408 (Costa Rica)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.