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Encyclopedia Britannica



LIMON, or PORT LIMON

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 700 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LIMON, or PORT LIMON , the
chief
  Atlantic port of Costa Rica, Central America, and the
capital
  of a
district
  also named Limon, on a bay of the Caribbean Sea, 103 M. E. by N. of San Jose. Pop. (1904) 3171. Limon was founded in 1871, and is the terminus of the transcontinental railway to Puntarenas which was begun in the same year. The swamps behind the town, and the shallow coral lagoon in front of it, have been filled in. The harbour is protected by a sea-
wall
  built along the low-water line, and an iron pier affords
accommodation
  for large vessels. A breakwater from the harbour to the
island
  of Uvita, about 1200 yds: E. would render Limon a first-class port. There is an excellent water-
supply
  from the hills above the harbour. Almost the entire coffee and
banana
  crops of Costa Rica are sent by rail for shipment at Limon to Europe and the United States. The
district
  (comarca) of Limon comprises the whole Atlantic littoral, thus including the Talamanca country inhabited by uncivilized Indians; the richest
banana
 -growing territories in the country; and the valuable forests of the San Juan valley. It is annually visited by Indians from the Mosquito
coast
  of Nicaragua, who come in canoes to fish for turtle. Its
chief
  towns, after Limon, are Reventazon and Matina, both with fever than 3000 inhabitants.


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