Port of Limón

The Port Terminal of Limón, (Spanish: Terminal Portuaria de Limón), whose official name is Hernán Garrón Salazar Terminal, adjacent to the city of Limón, is one of the seaports in the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

Hernán Garrón Salazar Terminal
Terminal Hernán Garrón Salazar
Port of Limón
Location
CountryCosta Rica
LocationLimón province
Coordinates9.990679°N 83.022017°W / 9.990679; -83.022017
Details
Opened1852
Operated byJAPDEVA
Owned byPublic

The port was officially established in 1852, during the government of Juan Rafael Mora Porras, but it was not linked to the capital, San José, or to the rest of the country until the 1890s, when the construction of the railroad to the Atlantic was finished by the United States businessman Minor C. Keith.[1]

References

  1. Limón's history document (in Spanish) Archived January 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

See also

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