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16 unusual facts about Limon


1991 Limon earthquake

Roads and bridges between Limon and Sixaola were all destroyed, and the epicentral region was only accessible by helicopter from the Panamaian side.

Costa Rican calypso

In Costa Rica, the calypso and other afro-caribbean rhythms are most present in the Province of Limón, where most of the Jamaican immigrations first came in the nineteenth century.

Denilson Costa

Denilson married Costa Rican Mirta Yorleni Ortiz whom he met while playing in Limón.

Dirk J. Vlug

On that day, near Limon in the Philippine province of Leyte, Vlug single-handedly destroyed five enemy tanks.

Esteban Alvarado

Esteban Alvarado Brown (born 28 April 1989 in Siquirres, Limón) is a Costa Rican football goalkeeper.

Felicio Brown Forbes

Brown Forbes was born in Berlin, to a Costa Rican father and a German mother, and spent his first six years in Limón.

Jervis Drummond

Jervis Éarlson Drummond Johnson (born September 8, 1976) in Limón, is a retired Costa Rican footballer who played as a centre-back and wing-back for Deportivo Saprissa of the Costa Rican first division for his entire career.

Juan Cayasso

Currently, he coaches Limón's football team, his hometown, in Costa Rica's second division.

Juan Arnoldo Cayasso Reid (born 24 June 1961 in Limón) is a former Costa Rican football player who shined during the 1980s and 1990s.

Junta de Administración Portuaria y de Desarrollo Económico de la Vertiente Atlántica de Costa Rica

It was established in 1963 as an autonomous entity of the State in order to ensure the maintenance of the canals of the northern province of Limon (Tortuguero and Barra del Colorado) and monitor government contracts with regard to ports and railway.

MS Queen Elizabeth

The ship made several European cruises until she departed on her first world cruise, leaving Southampton on 5 January 2011 and calling at New York, Fort Lauderdale, Aruba and Limon before transiting the Panama Canal.

North Carolina School of the Arts Summer Performance Festival

In addition to playing in orchestras and on stages worldwide, recent alumni have won the Metropolitan Opera's National Finalist award, performed on Broadway, played in the Grammy orchestra, acted in films and TV series and joined professional dance companies like Limon, Pilobolus, and American Ballet Theatre.

Tetrisia florigera

The species was last seen in 1911 and was rediscovered in 2009 in the Veragua Rainforest, in the province of Limón.

Timeline of the 1990 Atlantic hurricane season

1800 UTC (2:00 p.m. EDT) – Tropical Depression One develops roughly halfway between Limón, Honduras and Cape San Antonio, Cuba.

U.S. Route 46

In 1925, the US 46 designation was first proposed for a route in Colorado connecting Limon to Grand Junction, but it instead became U.S. Highway 40S.

Walter Kissling

Walter Kissling was born to Walter Kissling Rickli and Adela Gam Secen in Limón, Costa Rica on April 25, 1931.


Caño Limón–Coveñas pipeline

The Caño Limón – Coveñas pipeline is a crude oil pipeline in Colombia from the Caño Limón oilfield in the municipalities of Arauca and Arauquita in Arauca Department on the border of Venezuela to Coveñas on Colombia's Caribbean coastline.

Carlos Luis Fallas

Born in Alajuela to a single mother, Fallas completed only the first two years of secondary schooling before emigrating to Limón, in the Costa Rican Atlantic coast, where he worked in the banana plantations of the United Fruit Company.

Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children

FIMRC has partnered with the Roberto Clemente Rancho Santana clinic to provide medical care to children living in the rural western town of Limón, Nicaragua, which is near the city of Rivas.

Hiam Abbass

Also in 2008, she played the principal role in Israeli director Eran Riklis's film Lemon Tree (Etz Limon in Hebrew).

Hospital Dr. Tony Facio Castro

Hospital Dr. Tony Facio Castro, known as Hospital Tony Facio, in Limón, Costa Rica caters to the health needs of Limón Province.

Johnny Araya Monge

Araya's support was limited to the rural provinces of Guanacaste, Puntarenas and Limón, where the PLN maintains a strong party support system.

Manuel Carrillo Tablas

Don Manuel Carrillo Iturriaga married Doña María Limón (from San Luis Potosí) and both lived in Orizaba, Veracruz.

Rapid Action Battalion

Limon Hossain, a college student at Jamaddarhat at Rajapur Upazila in Jhalakati, was shot at by RAB personnel near his house on March 23rd, 2011, triggering local and international outcry.

Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere

Once the center for the Universal Great Brotherhood in Caracas was well established, Dr. Serge found a beautiful spot in El Limón, Maracay, in the State of Aragua, Venezuela where he decided to construct an Ashram.

Sizinkiler

Sizinkiler (Limon & Family) (literally, "Your People", but can be roughly translated as "The Common Folk"), is the daily comic strip designed and developed by the internationally recognized Turkish cartoonist Salih Memecan in 1991.

Vincent Bouchot

Vincent Bouchot, "De la musique dans l'oeuvre de Georges Perec: frequentations, themes, structures", in Cahiers Georges Perec 4 (Éditions du Limon, 1990), 97-120.