Limón (canton)

Canton in Limón province, Costa Rica

Canton in Limón, Costa Rica

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Limón canton

9°46′30″N 83°12′05″W / 9.7750689°N 83.2014154°W / 9.7750689; -83.2014154Country

Costa RicaProvince LimónCreation25 July 1892^[1]Head cityLimón Districts

Districts

Government

• TypeMunicipality • BodyMunicipalidad de LimónArea

• Total1,765.79 km² (681.78 sq mi)Elevation

12 m (39 ft)Population

(2011)

• Total94,415 • Density53/km² (140/sq mi)Time zoneUTC−06:00Canton code701Websitewww.municlimon.go.cr

Limón is a canton in the Limón province of Costa Rica.^[2]^[3] The head city is in Limón district.

Toponymy

Limón is the word in Spanish for the lemon fruit.

History

Limón was created as a canton on 25 July 1892 by decree 61.^[1]

A district of Limón was established in 1870 under the jurisdiction of the central government in San José.

Geography

Limón has an area of 1,765.79 km²^[4] and a mean elevation of 12 metres.^[2]

The canton lies along the Caribbean coast from the mouth of the Toro River in the north to Tuba Creek in the south. It ranges westward into the Cordillera de Tilarán, with a southwest finger of the canton reaching up to the peak of Cerro Chirripó, the highest point in Costa Rica.

Districts

The canton of Limón is subdivided into the following districts:

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
1883	1,858	—
1892	7,484	302.8%
1927	22,424	199.6%
1950	23,337	4.1%
1963	40,141	72.0%
1973	40,830	1.7%
1984	52,602	28.8%
2000	89,933	71.0%
2011	94,415	5.0%
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos^[5] Centro Centroamericano de Población^[6]

For the 2011 census, Limón had a population of 94,415 inhabitants.^[7]

Transportation

Road transportation

The canton is covered by the following road routes:

National Route 32
National Route 36
National Route 234
National Route 240
National Route 241
National Route 257
National Route 802

References

^ ^a ^b Hernández, Hermógenes (1985). Costa Rica: evolución territorial y principales censos de población 1502 - 1984 (in Spanish) (1 ed.). San José: Editorial Universidad Estatal a Distancia. pp. 164–173. ISBN 9977-64-243-5. Retrieved 5 October 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Declara oficial para efectos administrativos, la aprobación de la División Territorial Administrativa de la República N°41548-MGP". Sistema Costarricense de Información Jurídica (in Spanish). 19 March 2019. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ División Territorial Administrativa de la República de Costa Rica (PDF) (in Spanish). Editorial Digital de la Imprenta Nacional. 8 March 2017. ISBN 978-9977-58-477-5.
^ "Área en kilómetros cuadrados, según provincia, cantón y distrito administrativo". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^ "Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos" (in Spanish).
^ "Sistema de Consulta de a Bases de Datos Estadísticas". Centro Centroamericano de Población (in Spanish).
^ "Censo. 2011. Población total por zona y sexo, según provincia, cantón y distrito". Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2020.