Limón
is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the
department of
Colón in
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, ...
.
According to official census of 2001, has a population of 8,627 inhabitants.
Its territory of is divided into an ''
aldea'' (village) and 23 ''
caseríos'' (hamlets). Limón is bordered to the north by the
Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...
, to the south and east by the municipality of
Iriona, and to the west by the municipalities of
Trujillo and
Santa Rosa de Aguan.
OpenStreetMap - Limón
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See also
* Real Bella Vista
References
Municipalities of the Colón Department (Honduras)
Garifuna communities
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