Limón is the word in Spanish for the lemon fruit.

[1] A district of Limón was established in 1870 under the jurisdiction of the central government in San José.

Limón has an area of 1,765.79 km²[4] and a mean elevation of 12 metres.

[2] The canton lies along the Caribbean coast from the mouth of the Toro River in the north to Tuba Creek in the south.

It ranges westward into the Cordillera de Tilarán, with a southwest finger of the canton reaching up to the peak of Cerro Chirripó, the highest point in Costa Rica.