San José de los Remates is a municipality in the Boaco department of Nicaragua.

The mayor is Carlos Cajina Loaisiga from Alliance for the Republic (APRE), brother of Fabricio Cajina Loaisiga, former mayor of San José de los Remates and vice-presidential candidate of Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance, currently second in the Nicaraguan general election, 2006 polls.

The municipality is divided in ten urban and eighteen rural zones: The ten urban barrios in the town of San José de Boaco, the capital of the municipality are; Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, Costa Rica, El Progreso, El Granero, La Esperanza, Ranchería, Divino Niño, Inmaculada, El Colegio and Catorce de Junio.

On August 6, 1861, by resolution of General Tomás Martínez, head of the government, the municipality of San José de los Remates was created.

San José de los Remates celebrates every March 19 its patron Saint Joseph (San José) with corridas, a Nicaraguan variant of North American rodeo, parades and popular fiestas.