Guacimo

Guacimo is the capital of Guacimo, Limon Province in Costa Rica. This rural town on the east coast of the country has many banana and pineapple plantations. The place is not much visited by means of vacationers. Residents of Guácimo live a easy existence, frequently urging others to stay tranquilo, or cozy. Its name is taken from the short-developing malva circle of relatives tree, Guacimo, local to Central America. The metropolis started out with the development of the railway built by way of West Indian personnel of Minor Cooper Keith within the 1880s.

Keith built the so-known as "Old Line" from Siquirres west thru Guacimo to Carrillo earlier than it become decided that the music line, as opposed to persevering with from Carrillo immediately to San Jose, should be built from Siquirres thru Turrialba and Cartago alongside the Reventazon River. The railroad bridge in Guacimo, built via the Baltimore Bridge Company in 1905, is the oldest nevertheless status in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica. Across the bridge, Guacimo's sister metropolis of Africa become a bigger town than Guacimo until "colonists" began shifting in from other parts of Costa Rica.