Limón Canton

Limón is the name of the first canton in the province of Limón in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 1,765.79 km² [Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), 2001.] , and has a population of 97,102 [Estimates of Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INEC), May 2003.] . Its capital is the provincial capital city of Puerto Limón.

The canton lies along the Caribbean coast from the mouth of the Río Toro in the north to Tuba Creek (Río Tuba) in the south. It ranges westward into the Cordillera de Tilarán, with a southwest finger of the canton reaching up to the peak of Cerro Chirripó, the highest point in Costa Rica.

The canton of Limón is subdivided into 4 distritos (districts).

# Limón
# Valle La Estrella
# Río Blanco
# Matama

History

A district of Limón was established in 1870 under the jurisdiction of the central government in San José. It was recognized as a canton by a decree of August 19, 1903, when the neighboring canton of Turrialba was created on territory that had previously been part of Limón.

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