Limón (cri)

Limón

Limón ranks 796th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tegucigalpa, Monza, and Olomouc. Memorable people born in Limón include Harry Shum Jr., Juan Cayasso, and Yeltsin Tejeda. Limón has been the birth place of many soccer players, and actors. Limón is located in Costa Rica.

Limón, commonly known as Puerto Limón, is a district, the capital city and main hub of Limón Province, as well as of the Limón canton in Costa Rica. It is the seventh largest city in Costa Rica, with a population of over 94,000, and is home to the Afro-Costa Rican 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 decisions not to move even after it was legally permitted. Nowadays, there is a significant outflow of Limón natives who move to the country's Central Valley in search of better employment and education. The Afro-Caribbean community speaks Spanish and Limonese Creole, a creole of English. Read more on Wikipedia