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Limón Is Ready To Receive The Transat Jaques
Vabre 2009
The city of Limón on Saturday inaugurated
the the Villa del Transat, the dock 70 is
where it will receive the Transat Jacque
Vabre 2009 yachting race.
Costa Rican president, Oscar Arias, along
with the ministro de Turismo, Allan Flores;
legislator Yalile Esna; the presidentof
Japdeva, Francisco Jiménez; organizers of
the race and a whole lot of Limonses.
Accoring to tourism minister Flores, the
Transat will benefit the area economically.
The 14 sailboats left France on November 8
and are expected to arrive in Limón Monday
or Tuesday. There is the possibility that a
few might arrive today, Sunday.
This is the 9th edition of the Transat
Jacques Vabre 2009 as the double-handed
transatlantic race heads towards a brand new
Coffee destination, which follows the great
shipping route the Caribbean Sea as the
final home straight with the goal of Costa
Rica.
After four editions bound for Colombia, then
four more with the destination of Brazil,
the Transat Jacques Vabre fleet will now be
making for Puerto Limón, the gateway to
Costa Rica on the Caribbean coast.
In 1852, the port of Limón was developed
into a commercial port for transporting the
coffee produced in the Central Valley of San
José. As such it went on to become a key
port in Costa Rica's economic life, as well
as being the finest example of the region's
meeting of cultures over the course of
history.
In 1872 the first Afro-Caribbeans arrived to
help construct the railway. This brought
about the start of immigration, which gives
this region such a varied ethnic and
cultural character.
PuertoLimón, otherwise known simply as
Limón, is the capital of the region of the
same name. A natural paradise situated at
the centre of the Caribbean coast of Costa
Rica, this region is made up of a mixture of
dense tropical forests, imposing mountains
and heavenly beaches. The most abundant
region of Limón is doubtless the Tortuguero
National Park, an immense lakeside expanse
composed of natural channels, which is also
the green turtles' preferred spot for laying
their eggs.
Roxana Pinto, Ambassador of Costa Rica in
France said "�I am delighted to learn that
the Transat Jacques Vabre will this year be
going from Le Havre to Limón, a port on the
Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It's a voyage
which commemorates a route which has linked
Costa Rica and France since 1852, when the
port of Limón was developed into a
commercial port and the precious coffee
grains from Costa Rica were transported
exclusively via this route.
This competition will be proof of the
friendship between our two countries, as
well as being a voyage to the perpetual
summer of the tropics, the lush countryside
and the scorching sandy beaches that
Christopher Columbus saw for the very first
time in September 1502".
The battle commenced the minute they left Le
Havre.
Since its creation in 1993, the Transat
Jacques Vabre has continued to make progress
on every level. Whether it be in terms of
participants (with 62 participants in 2007,
compared with 36 in 2005), public
infatuation or even the quality of the media
plan, the race is as passionate as ever.
With a country as authentic as Costa Rica as
a new destination.
For more info on the race visit the
Jacques Vabre 2009 Race Official website.
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