Walking through the streets of Limón on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, you could be forgiven for thinking you had stepped into Kingston. Their labour not only laid the railway tracks but also transformed Limón into Costa Rica’s main Caribbean port. Roast breadfruit stall in Limón, Costa Rica. Recovery was slow, but the disaster reshaped both the physical and social landscape of Jamaica Town. Its story reveals how Afro-Caribbean identity helped shape Costa Rica, just as it has in Brazil, Panama, Nicaragua and across the Americas.