Las Tunas Province

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Las Tunas Province

Las Tunas is one of the provinces of Cuba

Provinces of Cuba

Administrative division, Cuba is divided into fourteen provinces and one special municipality....
. Major towns include Puerto Padre

Puerto Padre

Puerto Padre is a municipality and city in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba. It is located on the northern coastal region of the province, in and estuary that opens into the Puerto Padre Bay....
and Amancio

Amancio, Cuba

Amancio is a municipality and city in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba. He is located in the south-western part of the province, and opens to the Gulf of Guacanayabo to the south....
, as well as the capital, Victoria de Las Tunas

Victoria de Las Tunas

Victoria de las Tunas is a city and municipality in central-eastern Cuba. It is the capital of the Las Tunas Province.The municipality is divided into the barrios of Primero, Segundo, Antonio Machado, Arenas, Caisim?, Cauto del Paso, Cuaba, Curana, Duma?uecos, Ojo de Agua, Oriente, Palmarito, Playuelas and San Jos? de la Plata....
(sometimes known as Las Tunas, or even just Tuna).

The Las Tunas province was established in 1976, when it was split from the 'Oriente

Oriente

Oriente was one of six provinces of Cuba until 1976. It was known as "Santiago de Cuba Province" before 1905. The name is still used to refer to the eastern part of the country....
region.

The southern coast, which opens onto the Gulf of Guacanayabo

Gulf of Guacanayabo

The Gulf of Guacanayabo is a Headlands and bays along the southern coast of Cuba, bordered by Granma Province and Las Tunas Province provinces....
, is marsh

Marsh

In geography, a marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland which is subject to frequent or continuous flood . Typically the water is shallow and features Poaceaees, Juncaceaees, Phragmites, typhas, Cyperaless, and other herbaceous plants....
y and characterised by mangrove

Mangrove

Mangroves are trees and shrubs that grow in saline water coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics. The word is used in at least three senses: most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal, for which the terms mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, to refer to all trees and...
s. This wet area is used to grow sugarcane

Sugarcane

Sugarcane is a genus of 6 to 37 species of tall perennial plant Poaceae , native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Old World. They have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar and measure 2 to 6 meters tall....
in, as the wet climate

Climate

Climate encompasses the temperatures, humidity, atmospheric pressure, winds, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other Meteorology elements in a given region over long periods of time, as opposed to the term weather, which refers to current activity of these same elements....
is well suited for the crop.

Cattle

Cattle

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Las Tunas is one of the provinces of Cuba

Provinces of Cuba

Administrative division, Cuba is divided into fourteen provinces and one special municipality....
. Major towns include Puerto Padre

Puerto Padre

Amancio, Cuba

Victoria de Las Tunas

Oriente

Gulf of Guacanayabo

The Gulf of Guacanayabo is a Headlands and bays along the southern coast of Cuba, bordered by Granma Province and Las Tunas Province provinces....
, is marsh

Marsh

Mangrove

Sugarcane

Climate

Cattle

Cattle, colloquially referred to as cows, are domestication ungulates, a member of the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae. They are raised as livestock for meat , dairy products , leather and as draft animals ....
are also grazed in the province, which was, until the 1975, part of the Oriente province that was divided into five smaller provinces by the Cuban government. Victoria de Las Tunas was just a small market town until that year, and a large development program was started to modernise the town and connect it by road to Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Provinces of Cuba. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, and the urban area over 3.5 million, making Havana the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean....
.

Municipalities

Municipality Municipalities of Cuba The Provinces of Cuba of Cuba are divided into 169 municipality or municipios. The were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976....	Population (2004)	Area (km²)	Location	Remarks
Amancio Amancio, Cuba Amancio is a municipality and city in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba. He is located in the south-western part of the province, and opens to the Gulf of Guacanayabo to the south....
Colombia Colombia, Cuba Colombia is a municipality and city in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba. It is located in the western part of the province, south of Gu?imaro, Cuba....
Jesús Menéndez Jesús Menéndez, Cuba Jes?s Men?ndez is a municipality and city in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba....
Jobabo Jobabo, Cuba Jobabo is a municipality and city in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba. It is located in the southern part of the province, south of Victoria de Las Tunas, the provincial capital....
Majibacoa Majibacoa, Cuba Majibacoa is a municipality in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba. The municipal seat is located in the town of Calixto, Cuba, immediately east of Victoria de Las Tunas, the provincial capital....				Calixto
Manatí Manatí, Cuba Manat? is a municipality and city in the Las Tunas Province of Cuba. It is located in the north-western part of the province, on the northern coast of Cuba, in the Manati Bay....
Puerto Padre
Las Tunas				Provincial capital

Source: Population from 2004 Census. Area from 1976 municipal re-distribution.

Demographics

In 2004, the province of Las Tunas had a population of 529,850. With a total area of , the province had a population density of .

External links

(Las Tunas Province newspaper)