Cahuita Hotel 302
A nice hotel on the beach.
South of Limon in Cahuita there is a Hotel on the Caribbean Coast.
We have a room for you. Before the Spanish arrived in Costa Rica the area of Limón was inhabited by the indigenous groups called: Huétares, Suerres, Pococies, Tariacas, Viecitas and Terbis. Columbus came to the province the 18th of September 1502 when he arrived at the Uvita Island. During the second half of the 17th Century, people started growing Cocoa in the Valley of Matina. By 1871 the construction of the railroad began and right after that the plantation of bananas. In 1964 began the construction of a crude oil refinery and in 1979 the Province inaugurated their Port at Moín.
Modern History of
Limón starts in 1502, when the Admiral Don Cristóbal Colón
parked his ships for maintenance in this bay. The Indigenous
tribes of Cariari or Cariay received them peacefully and Admiral
was astonished of riches in gold the natives were showing.
Prbably from this time on people used the name Costa Rica but
oficially it appeared later on.
During Colonial times, the people from
inland had very sporadic contacts with this region specially the
region of Matima, where farmers from Cartago had Cocoa
plantations. Cocoa was very valuble during this times and the
kernels sometimes were uses instead of money.
It was during the second half of the
19th Century, when the governors decided to open a port on that
coast. Between 1870 and 1880 they also started working at the
railroad. To work on this project los of black people from other
continents, specially Jamaica, were imported. That explains the
high percentage of black people in this area.
Today the canton of Limón has grwon to
a big city with the most important port of the country. It is
the center of the province and of all the agricultural
activities.
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