El Limón is a municipal district

Municipality

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 of Santa Bárbara de Samaná

Santa Bárbara de Samaná

Samaná, in full Santa Bárbara de Samaná, is a city and municipality in northeastern Dominican Republic and is the capital of Samaná Province. It is located on the northern coast of Samaná Bay...

, Samaná province

Province

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, Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

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. It is on the north coast

Coast

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 of the Samaná Peninsula, on the Atlantic

Atlantic Ocean

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 coast.

There are other two municipal district

Municipality

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s with the same name (El Limón) in the country

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

: one in the Independencia province and the other in the Santiago province.

Théodore Chassériau

Théodore Chassériau

Théodore Chassériau was a French romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.-Life and work:...

, a French

France

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 painter

Painting

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, was born in El Limón in 1819.

Population

In the last national census (2002), the population of El Limón is included with that of the city of Samaná

Santa Bárbara de Samaná

Samaná, in full Santa Bárbara de Samaná, is a city and municipality in northeastern Dominican Republic and is the capital of Samaná Province. It is located on the northern coast of Samaná Bay...

.

Economy

The most important economic activities of the province are agriculture

Agriculture

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, fishing

Fishing

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 and tourism

Tourism

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. Tourism, above all nature

Nature

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 tourism, is important here because many tourists visit El Limón Waterfall

Waterfall

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