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University of Pinar del Río "Hnos Saíz Montes de Oca" (UPR) University of Sancti Spíritus "José Martí Pérez" (UNISS) University of Santiago de Cuba (Universidad de Oriente) (UO) University of Isla de la Juventud "Jesús Montané Oropesa" (UIJ)
The island lies almost directly south of Havana and Pinar del Río and is a Special Municipality (2,419 km 2 (934 sq mi)), not part of any province and is therefore administered directly by the central government of Cuba. The island has only one municipality, also named Isla de la Juventud.
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 ...
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.
The Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (abbreviation: DRE; English: Student Revolutionary Directorate) was a Cuban student activist group launched in opposition to Fidel Castro in 1960, based at the United States, where it soon developed links with the Central Intelligence Agency.
Isla de la Juventud: 0.802 High human development 3 Artemisa and Mayabeque: 0.777 4 Matanzas: 0.769 5 Guantánamo: 0.768 – Cuba (average) 0.764: 6 Ciego de Ávila: 0.764 Santiago de Cuba: 8 Cienfuegos: 0.763 9 Pinar del Río: 0.756 10 Villa Clara: 0.748 Sancti Spíritus: 12 Holguín: 0.742 13 Camagüey: 0.740 14 Granma: 0.737 15 Las Tunas: 0.736
The Cuban pine forests are a tropical coniferous forest ecoregion on the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Isla de la Juventud. They cover an area of 6,400 km 2 (2,500 sq mi), occurring in separate sections in eastern Cuba and western Cuba and Isla de la Juventud. [2]
The Pinar del Río province is Cuba's westernmost province and contains one of Cuba's three main mountain ranges, the Cordillera de Guaniguanico, divided into the easterly Sierra del Rosario and the westerly Sierra de los Órganos. These form a landscape characterised by steep sided limestone hills (called mogotes) and flat, fertile valleys.