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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 is an archaeological Maya site located inside the modern town of Limones in the Bacalar municipality of Quintana Roo in Mexico. The site main structure is a stepped pyramid dating from the Classic period, the rest of the structures remain buried.
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.
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.
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.
Until 1949 Costa Rica had segregation laws where Black people lived exclusively in the Caribbean Province of Puerto Limón. By 2011 Afro–Costa Ricans were spread in all 7 Costa Rican provinces: 32% of them in San José, 16% in Alajuela, 15% in Limón, 10% in Heredia and 8% in Cartago and Guanacaste.
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
The Yabucoa Valley (Spanish: Valle de Yabucoa) is a large fluvial valley located in the southeastern coast of Puerto Rico in the municipality of Yabucoa.The valley is surrounded by the hills of the San Lorenzo batholith to the north and west, by the Cuchillas de Panduras mountain ridge to the south, and by the Caribbean Sea to the east.