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LIMON, or PORT LIMON

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 700 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LIMON, or See also:PORT LIMON , the See also:chief See also:Atlantic port of See also:Costa Rica, Central See also:America, and the See also:capital of a See also:district also named Limon, on a See also:bay of the Caribbean See also:Sea, 103 M. E. by N. of See also:San Jose. Pop. (1904) 3171. Limon was founded in 1871, and is the See also:terminus of the transcontinental railway to See also:Puntarenas which was begun in the same See also:year. The swamps behind the See also:town, and the shallow See also:coral See also:lagoon in front of it, have been filled in. The See also:harbour is protected by a sea-See also:wall built along the See also:low-See also:water See also:line, and an See also:iron See also:pier affords See also:accommodation for large vessels. A See also:breakwater from the harbour to the See also:island of Uvita, about 1200 yds: E. would render Limon a first-class port. There is an excellent water-See also:supply from the hills above the harbour. Almost the entire See also:coffee and See also:banana crops of Costa Rica are sent by See also:rail for shipment at Limon to See also:Europe and the See also:United States. The district (comarca) of Limon comprises the whole Atlantic littoral, thus including the Talamanca See also:country inhabited by uncivilized See also: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 See also:Mosquito See also:coast of See also:Nicaragua, who come in canoes to See also:fish for turtle.

Its chief towns, after Limon, are Reventazon and Matina, both with See also:

fever than 3000 inhabitants.

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