San Rafael Arcángel, Pococí, Limón, Costa Rica Genealogy

Guide to San Rafael Arcángel ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Alternate Names

 * Iglesia de la Colonia
 * Iglesia católica de San Rafael

History
San Rafael Arcángel is in the Diocese of Limón within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the district of La Colonia, canton of Pococí, and province of Limón.

The Diocese of Limón was elevated on 30 December 1994 from Vicariate Apostolic of Limón. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before 1994 may be housed in another archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

Record Availability
Due to the increasing access of online records:
 * Individual parish coverage for databases in this table are inconsistent and should be verified
 * These are links to browse FamilySearch Explore Images and sets of the same images
 * FamilySearch Explore Images contains mostly un-indexed images of records that you can browse by locality.


 * The original metadata contained some mistakes, so this table can be used to see what records are available for each parish in Costa Rica