National Road Network of Costa Rica

Legal definitions

• Primary roads : Are those that connect the main roads in the Greater Metropolitan Area and provide a link between mainly the urban centers, airports, and industrial, commercial or recreative zones of national importance.
• Secondary roads : Are those that link the main urban centers of the Greater Metropolitan Area, which are not linked by primary roads.
• Tertiary roads : Are those that collect traffic bound for primary or secondary routes, as well as a link between urban centers of second order.
• Traverse routes : A group of national public roads that traverse the quadrant of an urban area, or streets that link two sections of a national road. They were created to expedite the traffic in city centers..
• Cantonal road network : Is the network of public roads and streets that are not part of the National Road Network, their administration is a municipal responsibility for each canton. They are not numbered at the national level, but are named either by given names or with numerical values, which might be used by another canton as well.