This port city on the Caribbean
Sea (Atlantic Ocean) was the one-time site of the United Fruit Company's
Castilla Division which specialized in the growth, cultivation and shipments of
the Gros Michel banana. This division was closed in the late 1930s as a result
of 'Panama disease', blight on the roots of the banana. The port city, and its
population were moved east on the peninsula in the 1940s when a small naval
base was established there for a PBY Catalina seaplane base. Puerto Castilla is
now a native fishing village of about six hundred residents. West of the
