The music presented in this recording has been recorded in the city of Puerto Limon, chief town in the Limon province (Costa Rica) during carnival celebrations. This province is situated in the Atlantic region and stretched out for 9221 Kms; it is the poorest and least populated in the whole country Its relative isolation is the result of a combination of factors such as the humid tropical weather (which causes great adaptation and installation problems), and the geographic features of the land (rich marshes, wild areas and huge rivers) that have hindered the development of effective means of communication.
In the month of September of 1502, during his fourth journey to America, Columbus landed at Carai, close to the actual Puerto Limon. At that time the region was inhabited by different native groups, and it remained isolated from the European colonization process for a long time.
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