Limón Province
Limón, the easternmost province of Costa Rica, is situated in the country's Caribbean lowlands. It is the least visited region of the country, and home to the country's Caribbean culture.Photo: Armigo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Puerto Limón and Tortuguero.
Puerto Limón
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Puerto Limón, commonly known as Limón, is a major city for cruise ships traveling through the Panama Canal. It is also a major transit point for travellers wishing to travel to Tortuguero by boat from the port of Moin, which is 15 minutes by bus from Puerto Limón.
Tortuguero
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Tortuguero is a village in the North East of the province Limón about 80 km north of the Caribbean city Limón in Costa Rica. It is the entrance of Tortuguero National Park which is one of the most popular parks of Costa Rica.
Puerto Viejo de Talamanca
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Puerto Viejo de Talamanca is a small coastal town in Caribbean Costa Rica in the province of Limón. It is popular with surfers and backpackers. This is an area where foreigners are buying and building.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cahuita and Cahuita National Park.
Cahuita
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Cahuita is a district of the Talamanca canton, in the Limón province of Costa Rica. It is located on the Caribbean coast.
Cahuita National Park
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Cahuita National Park is in eastern Costa Rica, along the Caribbean coast. The park is known for its pristine coral reef, turquoise waters, white sand beaches, and inland forests teeming with wildlife.
Sixaola
Sixaola is a district of the Talamanca canton, in the Limón province of Costa Rica. It is a border town together with Guabito, Panama Sixaola is right across the Sixaola River from Guabito, Panama.
Punta Uva
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Punta Uva is a small town south of Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.
Parismina
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Barra del Parismina is village of 600 people located on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, at the mouth of the Reventazón/Parismina river. The village located is about half way between Tortuguero and Puerto Limon on the Tortuguero canals at the map coordinates 10 degrees 18 minutes 23 seconds north, 83 degrees, 21 minutes, 12 seconds west.
Bribri
Bribri is in Costa Rica. It is home to one of the most indigenous of tribes in the Talamanca region.
Barbilla National Park
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Barbilla National Park is a large park in the mountains of eastern Costa Rica. The Rio Dantas flows through the park, which also includes a lake and includes Laguna Ayil and a mountain, known as Cerro Tigre.
Photo: Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Limón Province
- Type: province of Costa Rica with 387,000 residents
- Description: province of Costa Rica
- Also known as: “Limón” and “Provincia de Limon”
- Neighbors: Rio San Juan Region
- Category: electoral unit
- Location: Costa Rica, Central America, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Limón Province” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ሊሞን ክልል”
- Arabic: “ليمون”
- Armenian: “Լիմոն”
- Asturian: “Limón”
- Asturian: “provincia de Limón”
- Azerbaijani: “Limon Əyalət”
- Basque: “Limón probintzia”
- Basque: “Limón”
- Belarusian: “Лімон”
- Bengali: “লিমন প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Лимон”
- Catalan: “Limón”
- Catalan: “Província de Limón”
- Cebuano: “Provincia de Limón”
- Chinese: “Limón Séng”
- Chinese: “利蒙省”
- Croatian: “Limón, provincija”
- Croatian: “Limón”
- Czech: “Limón”
- Danish: “Limón”
- Dutch: “Limón”
- Dutch: “Provincie Limon”
- Dutch: “Provincie Limón”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Limón”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Limono”
- Finnish: “Limónin maakunta”
- French: “Limon”
- French: “Limón”
- French: “Province de Limón”
- Galician: “Provincia de Limón”
- Georgian: “ლიმონის პროვინცია”
- German: “Limón”
- German: “Provinz Limón”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Λιμόν”
- Hausa: “Limon Lardi”
- Hebrew: “לימון”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Limón”
- Italian: “provincia di Limón”
- Italian: “Provincia di Limón”
- Japanese: “リモン州”
- Javanese: “Provinsi Limon”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Лимон (провинция)”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Лимон”
- Kazakh: “Лимон облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Лимон облусу”
- Korean: “리몬주”
- Kotava: “CostarikaLimónWinka”
- Ladino: “Limon”
- Lithuanian: “Limono provincija”
- Malay: “Wilayah Limon”
- Marathi: “लिमोन प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Limón Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Limón”
- Northern Sami: “Limón”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limón”
- Norwegian: “Limón”
- Oromo: “Godinoota Limon”
- Panjabi: “ਲੀਮਨ ਪ੍ਰਾਂਤ”
- Persian: “استان لیمون”
- Polish: “Limón”
- Portuguese: “Limón”
- Portuguese: “Província de Limón”
- Pushto: “لیمون ولایت”
- Quechua: “Limón pruwinsya”
- Russian: “Лимон”
- Serbian: “Limon”
- Serbian: “Лимон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Limón”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Limón”
- Somali: “Gobolka Limon”
- Spanish: “Limón”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Limón”
- Swahili: “Kaunti ya Limon”
- Swedish: “Limón”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Лимон”
- Tatar: “Limon Öлке”
- Thai: “จังหวัดลิมอน”
- Turkish: “Limón ili”
- Turkish: “Limón”
- Ukrainian: “Лимон”
- Urdu: “لیمون صوبہ”
- Uzbek: “Limon viloyati”
- Vietnamese: “Limón”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Limón”
- Waray (Philippines): “Limón”
- Welsh: “Talaith Limón”
- Western Armenian: “Լիմոն”
- Wu Chinese: “利蒙省”
- “Limón”
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