Juraguá is a

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

n village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Abreus, in

Cienfuegos Province Cienfuegos () is one of the provinces of Cuba. The capital city of the province is also called Cienfuegos and was founded by French settlers in 1819. Overview Until 2011 Cienfuegos was the smallest province in Cuba (excluding the city of Hava ...

. With a population of ca. 7,000 it is the most populated village in the municipality after Abreus.

History

The village was founded in 1849 by Tomás Terry Adans as a farm (''Central Juraguá'') and grew around the homonym ''henequenera'', a plantation of

henequen Henequen (''Agave fourcroydes'') is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to southern Mexico and Guatemala. It is reportedly naturalized in Italy, the Canary Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Hispaniola, the Cayman Islands and ...

that produces and packages sisal fiber, founded in 1923. In 1976 Cuba and the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

signed an agreement to construct two nuclear power reactors near Juraguá, and the construction of

Juragua Nuclear Power Plant Juragua Nuclear Power Plant was a nuclear power plant under construction in Cuba when a suspension of construction was announced in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the termination of Soviet economic aid to Cuba. Russia and Cuba ...

, the only one built in Cuba, started in 1983. Named after the village, but located within Cienfuegos municipal territory, it was not completed and abandoned in 2000.

Geography

Located on a peninsula between Cienfuegos Bay and the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...

, Juraguá lies near the borders of Matanzas Province at the

Zapata Swamp The Zapata Swamp ( es, Ciénaga de Zapata, ) is located on the Zapata Peninsula in the southern Matanzas Province of Cuba, in the municipality of Ciénaga de Zapata. It is located less than southeast of Havana. Species and preservation Within th ...

(''Cienaga de Zapata''). The settlement extends south of a road linking Abreus (24 km north), to the Jagua Fortress (''Castillo de Jagua'', 11 km east). It is 3 km far from Nueva Juraguá, 5 from

, 30 from Cienfuegos and Yaguaramas, and 35 from Rodas.

Transport

Juraguá is served by the "Abreus- Jagua", a provincial road linked to the state highway '' Circuito Sur'' (CS). An industrial railway, starting in

Aguada de Pasajeros Aguada de Pasajeros () is a municipality and town in the Cienfuegos Province of Cuba. Geography The municipality is divided into the town of Aguada and the villages of Carreño, Real Campiña, Covadonga and Perseverancia. Yaguaramas, now part o ...

and ending at the nuclear plant, crosses the village to the south.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Juragua Populated places in Cienfuegos Province Populated places established in 1849

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