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Satellite image of the island. Isla de la Juventud [4] (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈisla ðe la xuβenˈtuð]; English: Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).
Formerly Cayo Blanco del Sur, this 15 km-long (9.3 mi), 500-metre-wide (1,600 ft) island is named after Ernst Thälmann, a German Communist politician and activist. Isla de la Juventud: Canarreos Archipelago: 2,200 850 Cuba's second-largest island, and the largest among Canarreos Archipelago's 350 islands.
Cayo Largo del Sur, or simply Cayo Largo ("Long Key”), is a small resort island in Cuba, off the south coast of the northwestern part of the main island in the Caribbean Sea. The cay is about 25 kilometers (16 mi) long and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) wide and is the second largest island in the Canarreos Archipelago .
The main island (Cuba), at 104,338 km 2 (40,285 sq mi), makes up most of the land area [1] and is the 17th-largest island in the world by land area. The island is 1,250 km (780 mi) long and 191 km (119 mi) across its widest points and 31 km (19 mi) across its narrowest points. [1]
Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million ...
The average in Barrow (increasingly known by the traditional Inupiaq name Utqiagvik) during the winter is just 6 degrees, though that's a far cry from the coldest temperature ever recorded in the ...
The second-largest island is Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) in the Canarreos archipelago, with an area of 2,204 km 2 (851 sq mi). Cuba has an official area of 109,884 km 2 (42,426 sq mi). Its area is 110,860 km 2 (42,803 sq mi) including coastal and territorial waters.
Cuba's electrical grid first failed around midday on Friday after one of the island's largest power plants shut down. The grid collapsed again on Saturday morning, state-run media reported.