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Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 934
Land area (2000): 1.852434 sq. miles (4.797781 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000336 sq. miles (0.000869 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.852770 sq. miles (4.798650 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44980
Located within: Colorado (CO), FIPS 08
Location: 39.264256 N, 103.689925 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 80828
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Limon
Wikipedia
Limon or Limón, Spanish for "lemon", may refer to:
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Limón Province, a province in Costa Rica
- Limón (canton), a canton in the province of Limón in Costa Rica
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Puerto Limón or Limón, the capital city of both the canton and province of in Costa Rica
- Limón Fútbol Club, a football team in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica
- Limon, Nièvre, a commune in the Nièvre department of France
- Limón, Honduras, a municipality in the department of Colón in Honduras
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Limon, Colorado, a town in the United States
- Limon Correctional Facility, Colorado, a correctional facility in the above city
- Limón, Panama
- Limón River, a river of northern Venezuela which flows into the Caribbean Sea
Puerto Limón, commonly known as Limón (Spanish for "lemon"), is the capital city and main hub of Limón province, as well as of the cantón (county) of Limón in Costa Rica. It is the sixth-largest city in Costa Rica, with a population of over 55,000 (including surrounding towns), and is home of a multicultural community. Part of the community traces its roots to Italian, Jamaican and Chinese laborers who worked on a late nineteenth-century railroad project that connected San José to Puerto Limón. Until 1948, the Costa Rican government did not recognize Afro-Caribbean people as citizens and restricted their movement outside Limón province. As a result of this "travel ban", this Afro-Caribbean population became firmly established in the region, which influenced the decision to not move even after it was legally permitted. Nowadays, there is an important outflow of Limón natives who move to the country's Central Valley in search for better employment and education. The Afro-Caribbean community speaks Spanish and Limonese Creole, a creole of English.
Puerto Limón contains two port terminals, Limón and Moín, which permit the shipment of Costa Rican exports as well as the anchoring of cruise ships. Health care is provided for the city by Hospital Dr. Tony Facio Castro. Two small islands, Uvita Island and Isla de Pájaros, are just offshore.
Limón is the first canton in the province of Limón in Costa Rica. The canton covers an area of 1,765.79 km², and has a population of 97,102. 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.
Usage examples of "limon".
And down the Magdalena he went, still sure of his quarry, following him to Bogota, and on again from Bogota to Barranquilla, and on to Savanilla, where he embarked on a Hamburg-American steamer for Limon.
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