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Fodor's Review:

On the left side of the highway as you enter Limón is a large cemetery. Notice the colonia china ("Chinese colony") and corresponding sign in Chinese on the hill in the cemetery: Chinese workers made up a large part of the 1880s railroad-construction team that worked here. Thousands died of malaria and yellow fever.

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