Hospital District  Hospital District is the third "distrito" of San José Canton, Costa Rica, and is one of the four administrative units that form San José downtown properly. The district houses, along with Merced district, the main commercial activity of the city, and is the most populous of the four central districts. Hospital District lies in the center of the canton, the only one which limits with districts of San José and not with other cantons. The district borders (clockwards) with Merced district to the north, El Carmen and Catedral districts to the east, San Sebastián and Hatillo districts to the south, and Mata Redonda district to the west. The district had 3.38 km² and 27,649 inhabitants on December 31, 2008 (850,500,180.18 inhabitants per km².) This district comprehend several "barrios" or neighbourhoods, like Almendares, Ángeles, Bolívar, Cant, Colón (part of it), La Merced, Pacífico (part of it), Pinos, Salubridad, San Bosco, San Francisco, Santa Lucía and Silos. Between its boundaries there is a lot of important institutions and buildings, from government, health and culture of the country.