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Colón is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. The municipality has an area of 547 km 2 (211 sq mi) and a population of about 68,021. The city proper, with a population of about 44,000, is the third-largest of its province.
The provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipalities (Spanish: municipios).They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976 [1] and reformed in 2010 with the abrogation of the municipality of Varadero and the creation of two new provinces: Artemisa and Mayabeque in place of former La Habana Province.
The San José Lagoon (Spanish: Laguna de San José) is a shallow saline lake or lagoon located between the municipalities of San Juan and Carolina in northeast of the main island of Puerto Rico. Despite being located in a highly urbanized area, this body of water is important for its mangrove forests .
Mayabeque is made up of the 11 eastern municipalities of the former La Habana province, with the capital in San José de las Lajas.Mayabeque Province is named after the Mayabeque River (the largest in this territory) as well as the south shore of Mayabeque beach, the place believed to be the original location of Havana village (San Cristóbal de La Habana) that was founded in 1514.
San Roque is a district of the Grecia canton, in the Alajuela province of Costa Rica. [1] [2] Geography. San Roque has an area of 27 km 2 [3] and an elevation of ...
San José de las Lajas is a municipality and the capital city of the newly formed Mayabeque Province of Cuba, after the segmentation of La Habana Province in 2011. It is located in the center north of the province, and is bisected by the Carretera Central. It was founded in 1778. [1]
He did pass at San Antonio de los Baños on his way from Havana to Batabanó anchorage, [10] where he stayed from 6 to 8 March 1801; [11] before boarding a boat en route to Trinidad. [10] But the area he covered all in all in Cuba is, in his own terms, "the 100 square leagues between Havana, Matanzas and Batabano, next to Trinidad" [ 12 ] (p ...
San José de los Ramos is a former town in the east of the Cuban province of Matanzas. It now forms part of Colón, Cuba. It is located some 17 km (11 mi) to the north east of the centre of Colón and 189 km (117 mi) east of Havana. The municipal district measured 56 square miles (150 km 2) [1] and had a population of 9,206 in 1943. [2]