Costa Rica
Limón Province
Limón

Puerto Limón

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 by boat from the port of Moin, which is 15 minutes by bus from Puerto Limón.
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  • Type: City with 70,000 residents
  • Description: district in Limón canton, and city of Limón province, Costa Rica
  • Also known as: “Limón”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Juan Gobán and Uvita Island.

Stadium
Photo: JuanJoséLP, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a stadium.

Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, or Isla Uvita, officially Isla Quiribrí, is a small 0.8-square-kilometre island 885 metres offshore of the port at Limón on the coast of .

Hospital
, known as Hospital Tony Facio, in Limón, , caters to the health needs of . The hospital occupies 22,000 square metres and is divided into modules including hospitalization and outpatient facilities.

Puerto Limón

Latitude
9.9932° or 9° 59′ 35″ north
Longitude
-83.0298° or 83° 1′ 47″ west
Population
70,000
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
IATA airport code
LIO
United Nations Location Code
CR LIO
Open location code
66XRXXVC+73
Open­Street­Map ID
node 185489267
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3622247
Wiki­data ID
Q30620
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Waray—“Puerto Limón” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Puerto Limón”
  • Arabic: “ليمون، كوستاريكا”
  • Arabic: “ليمون”
  • Armenian: “Լիմոն”
  • Armenian: “Պուերտո Լիոն”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Limón”
  • Asturian: “Limón”
  • Basque: “Limón”
  • Belarusian: “Лімон”
  • Bengali: “লিমন”
  • Catalan: “Província de Limón”
  • Catalan: “Puerto Limón”
  • Cebuano: “Limón (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Limón”
  • Chinese: “利蒙”
  • Chinese: “利蒙港”
  • Croatian: “Limón”
  • Czech: “Limón”
  • Czech: “Puerto Limón”
  • Danish: “Limón”
  • Danish: “Puerto Limon”
  • Danish: “Puerto Limón”
  • Dutch: “Limón”
  • Dutch: “Puerto Limon”
  • Dutch: “Puerto Limón”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليمون, كوستاريكا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليمون”
  • Esperanto: “Limón”
  • Finnish: “Limón”
  • French: “Limón”
  • French: “Moín”
  • French: “Puerto Limon”
  • French: “Puerto Limón”
  • German: “Limón”
  • German: “Puerto Limón”
  • Greek: “Λιμόν”
  • Greek: “Πουέρτο Λιμόν”
  • Gujarati: “લિમોન”
  • Hebrew: “לימון”
  • Hindi: “लिमोन”
  • Hindi: “लीमोन”
  • Hungarian: “Limón”
  • Hungarian: “Puerto Limón”
  • Indonesian: “Limón”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Limón”
  • Italian: “Limón”
  • Italian: “Puerto Limón”
  • Japanese: “プエルト・リモン”
  • Japanese: “リモン”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಮೋನ್”
  • Korean: “리몬”
  • Kotava: “Puerto Limón”
  • Latvian: “Limona”
  • Lithuanian: “Limonas”
  • Lithuanian: “Puerto Limonas”
  • Malay: “Limon”
  • Marathi: “लिमोन”
  • Moksha: “Лимон”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puerto Limón”
  • Northern Sami: “Limón”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Limon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Limón”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puerto Limon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puerto Limón”
  • Norwegian: “Limón”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Puerto Limón”
  • Persian: “لیمون (کاستاریکا)”
  • Persian: “لیمون”
  • Polish: “Limón”
  • Polish: “Puerto Limon”
  • Polish: “Puerto Limón”
  • Portuguese: “Limón”
  • Portuguese: “Puerto Limón”
  • Quechua: “Limón”
  • Romanian: “Limon”
  • Romanian: “Limón”
  • Russian: “Лимон”
  • Russian: “Пуэрто-Лимон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Limón”
  • Silesian: “Limón (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Limón”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමන්”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමොන්”
  • Slovenian: “Limón”
  • Slovenian: “Puerto Limón”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Limón”
  • Spanish: “Limón”
  • Spanish: “Puerto Limón”
  • Swedish: “Puerto Limón”
  • Tamil: “லிமோன்”
  • Tatar: “Лимон (Коста-Рика)”
  • Tatar: “Лимон”
  • Telugu: “లిమాన్”
  • Thai: “ลิมอน”
  • Thai: “ลีมอน”
  • Turkish: “Limon”
  • Ukrainian: “Лимон”
  • Urdu: “لیمون”
  • Vietnamese: “Limon”
  • Vietnamese: “Limón”
  • Volapük: “Limón”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puerto Limón”
  • “Limón, Costa Rica”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Puerto Limón”. Photo: cwi.aida, CC BY-SA 3.0.