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Golfito, city, southern Costa Rica. It is located on sheltered El Golfito Inlet, off the Gulf of Dulce of the Pacific Ocean, and is surrounded by steep hills. The region’s heavy rainfall supports a tropical rainforest vegetation similar to that of the Caribbean coast. Golfito was built in the 1930s as a company town providing housing and facilities for the employees of the United Fruit Company. At the time, United Fruit was shifting operations from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast in order to escape banana diseases that had swept the region. For more than 40 years, Golfito was the ...(100 of 205 words)

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