Pedro Betancourt, sometimes shortened as Betancourt, is a municipality and town in the

Matanzas Province Matanzas () is one of the provinces of Cuba. Major towns in the province include Cárdenas, Colón, Jovellanos and the capital of the same name, Matanzas. The resort town of Varadero is also located in this province. Among Cuban provinces, ...

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. It is located in the center of the province, west of

Jagüey Grande Jagüey Grande, simply known as Jagüey (), is a town and municipality in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located east of the Zapata Peninsula, north of the Bahia de Cochinos, along the A1 motorway in the center of the province. History The ...

and east of

Unión de Reyes Unión de Reyes is a municipality and town in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located in the western part of the province, south of Matanzas, the provincial capital. History Unión de Reyes was founded in 1844, and it was established as a ...

. It was founded in 1833.

History

Its original name was Corral Falso de Macurijes. Pedro Betancourt's name comes from a famous Spanish-Cuban patriot, Pedro Estanislao Betancourt Dávalos, who was one of the Major-General in the independence war, waged by the Cuban natives against the

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Geography

The municipality was historically divided into the

barrio ''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residenti ...

s of Cabecera Norte, Cabecera Sur (both constituting the town), Ciego, Linche, Navajas, Platanal, Punta Brava, Torriente and Tramojos. Nowadays it counts the town itself and 7 popular councils (''consejos populares'', i.e. villages): The main town of Betancourt and the villages of Bolondrón, Camilo,

Güira de Macurijes Pedro Betancourt, sometimes shortened as Betancourt, is a municipality and town in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located in the center of the province, west of Jagüey Grande and east of Unión de Reyes, Cuba, Unión de Reyes. It was found ...

, Manolito, Navajas and Pedroso-Socorro.The ''Consejos Populares'' of Pedro Betancourt
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Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of Pedro Betancourt had a population of 32,218. With a total area of , it has a population density of .

Sisters towns

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