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Limón (Spanish pronunciation:), also known as Puerto Limón, is the capital city of both the province and canton of the same name. One of Costa Rica's seven "middle cities" (i.e., main cities outside of San José's Greater Metropolitan Area), [1] [2] Limón has a population of 71,514, which made it, as of 2022, the most-populous city in the country outside of the Greater Metropolitan Area and ...
Limones was in Spain's gazetteers [6] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
The archaeological site of Limones is located in the community of the same name at the municipality of Bacalar in southern Quintana Roo, Mexico, near the Maya site of Chacchoben. The main pyramid of Limones is visible from the Federal Highway 307 that connects the cities of Cancun and Chetumal. [2]
The Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas) is a Puerto Rican government program adopted by the state Planning Board (Junta de Planificación) for use by both private and public entities to evaluate, register, revitalize, develop or protect the built historic and cultural heritage of Puerto Rico in the context and for economic ...
Siquirres has an area of 860.19 km² [4] and a mean elevation of 127 metres. [2]The canton touches the Caribbean coast between the mouths of the Pacuare River to the southeast and the Parismina River to the northwest.
The park is located on the volcanic Cordillera Central (Central mountain range) between San José city and Puerto Limón on the Caribbean. It is accessible from the Limon Highway, which bisects the park (northwest to southeast), and from Barva canton on the north. The park is separated into three main sectors — Zurquí, Quebrada Gonzales, and ...
Limón (Spanish pronunciation:) is one of seven provinces in Costa Rica.The province covers an area of 9,189 km 2, and has a population of 386,862. [2]The majority of its territory is situated in the country's Caribbean lowlands, though the southwestern portion houses part of an extensive mountain range known as the Cordillera de Talamanca.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Yabucoa is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).