Puerto Viejo / Puerto Viejo de Talamanca is a coastal town in Talamanca in
Limón Province in southeastern Costa Rica, known simply as Puerto Viejo to
locals. The town was originally called Old Harbor until the Spanish central
Costa Rican government institutionalized Spanish as the new local language and
changed the names of the towns and landmarks in the area from English to
Spanish. Fields became Bri Bri. Bluff became Cahuita. The Afro-Caribbean
English speaking culture was actively dismantled. There is another town
commonly
