Limón conjures up images of Costa Rica's coconut-fringed Caribbean coast. The port city of Limon is Caribbean flavor all the way-it is a capital of the Afro-Caribbean culture in Costa Rica. It was founded mainly by Afro-Carribean slaves that were brought here to work in the construction of the railway between Limon and San Jose. Christopher Columbus and his crew were the first Europeans to lay eyes on the shores of Costa Rica. On the fourth and final voyage to the Americas, in 1502, he anchored near what is now the port city and provincial capital of Limón.