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One of the many United Fruit Co's steamers which call regularly 
at Costa Rican ports 
The ships of the following lines call regularly at Costa 
Rican ports, usually weekly or fortnightly* 
Those companies marked with an avterisk maintain their 
own offices in San Jose* All others are represented by agents. 
* UNITED FRUIT COMPANY. (American). 
* ROYAL NETHERLANDS STEAMSHIP Co. (Dutch)* 
* HAP AG LLOYD (German) . 
GRACE LINE (American)* 
* ELDERS 8 FYFFES. (British). 
EAST ASIATIC Co. Inc. (Danish). 
FRED OLSEN LINE. (Norwegian). 
CIE. GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE. (French). 
HOLLAND AMERIKA LINE. (Dutch). 
ROYAL MAIL, (British). 
PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION Co. (British). 
NORWAY PACIFIC LINE. (Norwegian). 
JOHNSON LINE. (Swedish). 
The PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS System offers con¬ 
nections with all the countries of North and South America 
from San Jose, Costa Rica's capital, several times weekly: 
The international airport is located at Santa Ana, about 
15 miles due west of San Jose with which it is connected by 
a fine, concrete road. A new international airport is being 
constructed at the Sabana, only five minutes from the heart 
of San Jose. 
The local aviation companies also have services to Pa¬ 
nama and Nicaragua. 
Palm Promenade at Vargas Park, Port Limon 
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PUERTO LIMON 
(The usual port of entry) 
N over night.trip from Cristobal, Panama Canal Zone, 
and the first streaks of dawn sweeping over the placid, 
azure waters of the Atlantic find your steamer standing 
off - Puerto Limon, Costa Rica's chief “banana port” 
which nestles in the arms of a palmfringed bay, behind which 
rear the high jungle-clad mountains of the interior. 
By the time you have taken breakfast the ship is already 
tied up alongside one of the wharve s where a representative of the 
National Tourist Board of Costa Rica is waiting to escort you 
to San Jose, the capital, on the special train which awaits all 
tourist ships. 
There are no difficult customs to be negotiated (the 
tourist you will find, is a highly privileged person in Costa 
Rica) and within the space of a few minutes you find yourself 
on Costa Rican soil ready to enijoy the many pleasures which 
the country has to offer its guests. 
Puerto Limon marks the exact site of an ancient Indian 
village, Carare by name, where Christopher Columbus landed 
on his fourth and last voyage to America. It is a very busy 
port, most of Costa Rica s coffee, bananas and other products 
passing through here on their way to the markets of Europe 
and North America, while a substantial proportion of the 
country's varied imports enters here too. 
The city is neatly laid out in square, well-paved blocks 
and enjoys the most modern sanitation. Much of Puerto Li- 
mon's population is colored but the visitor must bear in mind 
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