Sabanilla is a district of the Montes de Oca canton, in the San José province of Costa Rica.

By the end of the 19th century, finishes the construction of the Iglesia San Ramón Nonato, it was a work promoted by a visit to the coffee producing town by Monsignor Bernardo Augusto Thiel, second bishop of Costa Rica between 1880 and 1991.

[3] On August 2, 1915, the Montes de Oca canton is founded by law decree 45, under the Alfredo González Flores administration.

[4] On April 24, 1977, Franz Hinkelammert established in Sabanilla the Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones (DEI), which is visited annually by many liberation theologians and community culture workers from all the Latin American region.

[9] The district is covered by the following road routes: This Costa Rican location article is a stub.