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Not to mention that being on the east side of a very tall mountain range makes a lot of sense as climate change accelerates. Though none of the fruits that you listed tend to do well in the Amazon... Mango (Mangifera indica) requires a distinct dry season in order to bear fruit unless you plant the Jim West Miracle Mango which is exactly the opposite in that the more rain it gets, the more it fruits, even twice in one year if there is no dry season at all. Papaya in rainforest clay would require all of the vegetation cleared from around it and preferably replaced by gravel or asphalt in order to avoid root-rot that kills >90% of plants before they bear fruit. Chirimoya (Annona cherimola) requires 50-100 hours below 13°C in order to reliably set fruit, so the nice folks in Limón might get it to work, but anyone at a lower elevation would be better off planting the native Rollinia mucosa instead.