San Jose

San Jose Santo Joseh
City
View of the San Jose Bank District
Nickname(s):  The Southern City, The City of Industry
Country	Slokais Islands
Province	South San Fernando
Founded	1927
Government
• Mayor	Linda Ovena Lopez (National Alliance)
Elevation	376 m (1,235 ft)
Population  (2020)
• Total	1,123,290
Website	SanJose.si

San Jose is a city in Slokais Islands. Founded in 1929, as a part of the Grand Industrial Plan. San Jose is known for its large tech industry, with several companies based in the city's Midtown district. The city is rapidly expanding due to a growing tech and car manufacturing industry.

History

San Jose was originally a small Minjian temple and surrounding farming community known as Calangzhe. Calangzhe reached a population of around 2,000 as estimated by Fransisco de San Jose on his visit to the area in 1610. In his documented journey along the San Fernando River, he called the area that became San Jose "An area of lush valleys and low hills, desirable for future settlement". Missionaries would return in 1635 with a team of builders consisting mostly of slave labor and indentured servants and would construct Mission de San Jose Arcangel. Upon its completion, the town of Calangzhe grew to become the seat of government for Calenderas Municipo by 1715. During the colonial era, several other towns were established in what is now San Jose such as Perdido and Guadalupe Caleras.

Republic Era

When Slokais Islands was created, San Jose became part of San Fernando Province which stretched from the mouth of the San Fernando River to the river's source. From its conception, those in the southern parts of the Province argued the province was dominated by former colonial elites in San Fernando. During the 1910s, activists in Calangzhe protested for a new province to be created, many of those being farmers angered by the high transport fees imposed in the Port of San Fernando. This general anger was capitalized on by Richard Livingstone in 1925, as he pushed through the creation of a new province with a new planned capital known as San Jose. In 1927 was incorporated as a city covering a large area of undeveloped space for a planned capital and business district.

San Jose was designed to be a center for business to New Liverpool's center of governance, this connection was cemented when a rail line was built between the relatively short distance between the two cities. San Jose's primary public buildings were molded in an art-deco style, with notable buildings including the South San Fernando Provincial Capital and the City of Industry Arts Center. To accommodate the intended movement of business, the government bought up large tracts of land from farmers in exchange for poor value on how much the land was worth. San Jose also established itself as the center of the Slokasian automobile industry with SMC and Astra Motors building there headquarters in the city. Additionally, cheap land led to the development of outlying municipalities, many of which experimented with design and urban planing principles.

Geography

San Jose is the provincial capital of South San Fernando Province located about 60 km (37 miles) south of New Liverpool's southern boundary. The city sits at an elevation of 308 meters (1,010 feet) above sea level. Much of the city sits in the San Fernando River Valley a large area of relatively flat land with many small tributaries feeding the San Fernando River. The San Fernando's largest tributary in the area is the Cimhai which passes just the south of the city center and forms an island when it rejoins several miles south.