Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Manzanillo
Manzanillo is the last town on the Caribbean coast in Costa Rica in the canton of Talamanca, Province of Limon. Ten miles south of Puerto Viejo de Limon the road literally ends in the small village of Manzanillo. A quiet unspoiled typical Caribbean town with no more than 300 inhabitants. Scattered wooden houses, built on […]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Talamanca
Talamanca is a canton in the south of the Province of Limon, bordering Panama in the west and the south and the Caribbean sea in the east. There are not many regions left in Costa Rica where the concentration of indigenous people is high. Besides the Province of Guanacaste, the south part of the Province […]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Province of Limon
The Province of Limon covers the entire Caribbean coastline of Costa Rica, all the way from the northern border with Nicaragua to the Sixaola River in the south that forms the border with Panama. More inland this province borders with Braulio Carillo National Park and the Western slopes of the Turialba mountains. In the south […]