The Sixaola River (

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: ''Río Sixaola'') is a river in southern

Limón Province Limón () is one of seven Provinces of Costa Rica, provinces in Costa Rica. The province covers an area of 9,189 km2, and has a population of 386,862. The majority of its territory is situated in the country's Caribbean lowlands, though the ...

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.Google Earth It flows from the Cordillera Talamanca to the

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northeast of

Sixaola Sixaola is a district of the Talamanca canton, in the Limón province of Costa Rica. It is a border town together with Guabito, Panama Sixaola is right across the Sixaola River from Guabito, Panama. History Sixaola was created on 19 February ...

at . The river's headwaters are part of the

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. For part of its length, the river forms the border between Limón Province, Costa Rica and

Bocas del Toro Province Bocas del Toro (; meaning "Mouths of the Bull") is a Provinces of Panama, province of Panama. Its area is 4,643.9 square kilometers, comprising the mainland and nine main islands. The province consists of the Bocas del Toro Archipelago, Bahía Al ...

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. An old railroad bridge that collapsed in 2017 spanned the river between

Guabito Guabito is a corregimiento and town in the Changuinola District of the Bocas del Toro Province of Panama. It is a small town located directly across the Rio Sixaola from Sixaola, Costa Rica. An elevated former railroad grade and bridge connects ...

, Panama, and Sixaola, Costa Rica. This bridge was a border crossing between Costa Rica and Panama and used by pedestrians when traveling between Costa Rica and Bocas del Toro. This bridge has now been dismantled. A new binational road bridge has been in construction next to the place of the old railway bridge, and will open in 2020. It will be the end point of National Route 36 in Costa Rica and Route 1001 in Panama. The Rio Sixaola is also the boundary between the UTC−06:00 ( Central) and UTC−05:00 (

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) Time Zones. Costa Rica is one hour behind Panama. Route 36 ends in Sixaola. Sixaola is right across the river from

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