Sarchí is a canton in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica.
[2][3] The head city is in Sarchí Norte district.
On 7 August 2019, by Law 9658, the canton changed its previous name from Valverde Vega to Sarchí.
[1] It was originally named Valverde Vega in honor of Dr. Carlos Luis Valverde Vega, a medic and founder of the Unión Médica Nacional (National Medical Union) after more than forty years of struggle.
It reaches northward into a beautiful high valley of the Cordillera Central (Central Mountain Range) between the Poás and Platanar volcanoes.