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September 15th, 2026
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Theme: Cities Built on the Banana Trade
The banana trade reshaped Caribbean and Central American coastlines as fruit companies built ports, railways, and company towns to move produce north. Puerto Barrios rose as United Fruit's Guatemalan gateway, while Puerto Limón became Costa Rica's Atlantic lifeline for export. Santa Marta shipped Colombian bananas that fed a booming trade and, tragically, a 1928 massacre of striking workers. La Ceiba and Trujillo in Honduras rounded out a coastline once so dominated by fruit companies that Honduras earned the label 'banana republic'.
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Puerto Limón, Costa RicaThis Caribbean port became Costa Rica's main banana export hub in the late 19th century.
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Santa Marta, ColombiaThis Colombian port city was central to the country's early 20th-century banana export boom.
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Puerto Barrios, GuatemalaThis Guatemalan port was built largely to serve United Fruit Company's banana shipments.
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La Ceiba, HondurasThis Honduran city grew rapidly as a major banana-exporting port in the early 1900s.
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Trujillo, HondurasThis early Honduran port town was one of the first bases for American banana companies in the region.