Matanzas Province

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Matanzas Province

Matanzas is one of the provinces of Cuba

Provinces of Cuba

Administrative division, Cuba is divided into fourteen provinces and one special municipality....
. Major towns in the province include Cárdenas

Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba

C?rdenas is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba, about 175 km east of Havana....
, Jovellanos and the capital of the same name, Matanzas

Matanzas

Matanzas is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas Province. It is famed for its Afro-American religions.It is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas , east of the capital Havana and west of the resort town of Varadero....
. The resort town of Varadero

Varadero

Varadero is a resort town in the province of Matanzas Province, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean. Varadero is also called Playa Azul, meaning "blue beach" in Spanish language....
is also located in this province.

Of Cuba's provinces, Matanzas is one of the most industrialised, with petroleum

Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid found in rock formations in the Earth consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights, plus other organic compounds....
wells, refineries, supertanker facilities, and 21 sugar

Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
mills to process the harvest

Harvest

In agriculture, the harvest is the process of gathering mature crop from the field s. Reaping is the cutting of grain or Pulse for harvest, typically using a scythe, sickle, or reaper....
s of the fields of 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 the province.

second largest in Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
, Matanzas province is largely flat, with its highest point (Pan de Matanzas) at only 380m above sea level

Sea level

Mean sea level is the average height of the sea, with reference to a suitable reference surface. Defining the reference level , however, involves complex measurement, and accurately determining MSL can prove difficult....
.

The north-western coast is largely rocky, with a few beaches, while the north-eastern coast has numerous small cay

Cay

A cay is a small, low-elevation, sandy island formed on the surface of coral reefs. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean and Indian Oceans , where they provide habitable and agricultural land for hundreds of thousands of people....
s of its coast (part of Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago

Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago

Sabana-Camag?ey is an archipelago that lines Cuba's north-central Atlantic Ocean coast. It is located off the northern coast of the Provinces of Cuba of Matanzas Province, Villa Clara Province, Sancti Sp?ritus Province, Ciego de ?vila Province and Camag?ey Province, and is bounded to the north by the Atlantic Ocean, specifically by the Nicho...
), and scrubland

Scrubland

Scrubland is a plant community characterized by scrub vegetation. Scrubland consists of shrubs, mixed with grasses, herbs, and geophytes. Scrublands may either occur naturally or be the result of human activity....
and 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 near the shoreline.

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Matanzas is one of the provinces of Cuba

Provinces of Cuba

Administrative division, Cuba is divided into fourteen provinces and one special municipality....
. Major towns in the province include Cárdenas

Cárdenas, Matanzas, Cuba

C?rdenas is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba, about 175 km east of Havana....
, Jovellanos and the capital of the same name, Matanzas

Matanzas

Varadero

Petroleum

Sugar

Harvest

Sugarcane

Geography

The second largest in Cuba

Cuba

Sea level

Cay

Sabana-Camaguey Archipelago

Scrubland

Mangrove

Hicacos Peninsula

Hicacos is a peninsula on Cuba's northern shore, in the Provinces of Cuba of Matanzas Province. The resort town of Varadero, Cuba is located on the peninsula....
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The southern coast has one of Cuba's most distinctive features: an enormous 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....
, Ciénaga de Zapata that covers both the southern part of the province and the Zapata Peninsula

Zapata Peninsula

Zapata Peninsula is a large peninsula in Matanzas Province, southern Cuba, at . Zapata Swamp National Park is located on the peninsula.It is located south of Ensenada de la Broa, east of the gulf of Batabano and north of the Gulf of Cazones....
. East of the peninsula lies the Bay of Pigs

Bay of Pigs

The Bay of Pigs is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was located in Santa Clara Province, then by 1961 in Las Villas Province, but in 1976 it was re-assigned to Cienfuegos Province, when the original six provinces were re-organized into fourteen new Provinces of Cuba....
, the site of the failed US backed invasion

Bay of Pigs Invasion

The Bay of Pigs Invasion, was an unsuccessful attempt by a U.S.-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba with support from U.S. government armed forces to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro....
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Municipalities

Matanzas is sub-divided into 14 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
Calimete Calimete, Cuba Calimete is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba.The city was founded in 1867 by Jos? Antonio Casta?eda....
Cárdenas
Cienaga de Zapata				Playa Larga
Colón Colón, Cuba Col?n is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba....
Jagüey Grande Jagüey Grande, Cuba Jaguey Grande is a municipality in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located east of the Zapata Peninsula, north of the Bay of Pigs, along the Carretera Central, in the center of the province....
Jovellanos
Limonar Limonar, Cuba Limonar is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba.The municipality is divided into the barrios of Can?mar, Guamacaro, Caoba, Sumidero, Coliseo and San Miguel....
Los Arabos
Martí Martí, Cuba Mart? is a town and municipality in north-eastern section of Cuba's Matanzas Province....
Matanzas				Province capital
Pedro Betancourt Pedro Betancourt, Cuba Pedro Betancourt is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located in the center of the province, west of Jag?ey Grande, Cuba and east of Uni?n de Reyes, Cuba....
Perico Perico, Cuba Perico is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located south of Marti, Cuba, north of Col?n, Cuba and east of Jovellanos, Cuba....
Unión de Reyes Unión de Reyes, Cuba Uni?n de Reyes is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located in the western part of the province, south of Matanzas, Cuba, the provincial capital....
Varadero

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

Demographics

In 2004, the province of Matanzas had a population of 675,980. With a total area of , the province had a population density of .

Matanzas Province

Geography

Municipalities

Demographics

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