El Limón, Samaná
municipality district in the Dominican Republic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
El Limón (in English, The Lemon) is a Municipal district of Santa Bárbara de Samaná, Samaná province, Dominican Republic. It is on the north coast of the Samaná Peninsula, on the Atlantic coast.
It was made a municipal district on July 20, 2001.[3]
There are other two Municipal districts with the same name (El Limón) in the country: one in the Independencia province and the other in the Santiago province.
Théodore Chassériau, a French painter, was born in El Limón on 1819.[4]
In the last national census (2010), the district had a total population of 7,024: 3,622 men and 3,402 women. The urban population was 66.23% of the total population.[2]
The most important economic activities of the province are agriculture, fishing and tourism. Tourism, above all nature tourism, is important here because many tourists visit El Limón Waterfall.
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