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Puerto Armuelles
A banana company town by the Costa Rican border.
- Population
- 12,249 (2023)
- Founded
- 1927
Then
- 1927
United Fruit begins building the town.
- 1982
An oil pipeline to the Caribbean is built.
- 2003
Chiquita leaves and sells to a workers' cooperative.
Now
The town has shrunk from 46,093 people in 1990.