Cartagena is a district of the Santa Cruz canton, in the Guanacaste province of Costa Rica.
Cartagena was created on 2 October 1964 by Acuerdo Ejecutivo 405. Segregated from Tempate.
Cartagena has an area of kmò and an elevation of metres.
Administrative center of the district is the village of Cartagena.
Other villages in the district are Corocitos and Lorena.
For the 2011 census, Cartagena had a population of inhabitants.
The district is covered by the following road routes: