Nuevitas is a municipality and

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town in the

Camagüey Province Camagüey () is the largest of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Camagüey. Other towns include Florida and Nuevitas. Geography Camagüey is mostly low lying, with no major hills or mountain ranges passing through the province. Numerous lar ...

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 ...

. The large bay was sighted by

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in 1492.

History

Founded in 1775, the city was moved to its present site in 1828. Before the 1977 national municipal reform, Nuevitas was divided into the

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s of Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Alvaro Reinoso, Lugareño, Redención, San Miguel and Senado.

Geography

Nuevitas is located on the Guincho peninsula on the north coast, and borders with the municipalities of

Guáimaro Guáimaro is a town and municipality in the southern part of Camagüey Province in Cuba. It is located between the cities of Camagüey and Las Tunas. History Guáimaro features prominently in Cuban history as the place where in 1869, at the begin ...

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, Manatí (in

Las Tunas Province Las Tunas is one of the provinces of Cuba. Major towns include Puerto Padre, Amancio, and the capital city, Las Tunas (historically Victoria de Las Tunas).Morón (in

Ciego de Ávila Province Ciego de Ávila () is one of the provinces of Cuba, and was previously part of Camagüey Province. Its capital is Ciego de Ávila, which lies on the Carretera Central (central highway), and the second city is Morón, further north. The provinc ...

). The municipality includes the villages of Camalote, Pastelillo,

Playa Santa Lucía Nuevitas is a municipality and port town in the Camagüey Province of Cuba. The large bay was sighted by Christopher Columbus in 1492. History Founded in 1775, the city was moved to its present site in 1828. Before the 1977 national municipal refo ...

, San Agustín, San Miguel de Bagá and Santa Rita. Nuevitas is not a very large city but it is one of Cuba's most important towns because of its commercial and industrial activities. Nuevitas is located southwest of

, which is popular with tourists.

Cayo Sabinal Cayo Sabinal is a cay on the northern coast of Cuba, in the municipality of Nuevitas, Camagüey Province. Has an area of 335 km². Geography It is the southernmost island of the Jardines del Rey archipelago, and is located north of the Bay of ...

is located immediately north; other cays are

Cayo Guajaba Cayo Guajaba is a cay on the northern coast of Cuba, in the province of Camagüey. Geography It is part of Jardines del Rey archipelago, and is located west of Cayo Sabinal, east of Cayo Romano, north of The Bay of la Gloria (''Bahia de la Glori ...

and Cayo Romano.Map of Camagüey Province showing municipal territories
(05 is Nuevitas) The only waterway that separates Santa Lucia from Ensenada Playa Bonita is the canal of Nuevitas which connects the Bahia de Nuevitas to the

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Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of Nuevitas had a population of 44,882. With a total area of , it has a population density of .

Transport

Nuevitas is sheltered by a huge

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, has two auxiliary ports, and is a major shipping point for Cuban

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as well as other products from the surrounding agricultural region. It also possesses diversified light industry and serves as a road and rail terminus. The principal road crossing the municipality is the state highway "

Circuito Norte The ''Circuito Norte'' (CN), meaning "Northern Circuit", is a west-east highway spanning the length of the island of Cuba, through the Atlantic Coast. With a length of 1,222 km, it is the second-longest Cuban highway, after the " Carretera ...

" (CN). The railway station is the terminus of two lines: one from

Camagüey Camagüey () is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third-largest city with more than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province. It was founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe in 1514, by S ...

, and a second from Santa Clara, through the Atlantic Coast and Morón.

Personalities

Emilia Bernal Emilia Bernal Agüero (Nuevitas, 8 May 1882 – 1964) was a Cuban poet, who also cultivated other genres such as essay, translation and the autobiographical novel. Along with several other middle-class, educated women writer contemporaries -Lydia Ca ...

(1882–1964), poet *

Enrique Cirules Enrique Cirules (1938 – 18 December 2016) was a Cuban writer and essayist. He was born in Nuevitas, Camagüey Province. Biography Among his best known works are ''Conversation with the last American'' (1973), a non-fiction novel about the establi ...

(1938–2016), writer *

Armando Coroneaux Armando Coroneaux Isidoro (born 2 July 1985) is a Cuban international footballer who plays for the Cuba national football team. CLub career Coroneaux has played his entire career for Camagüey and scored 100 league goals for the club. Internati ...

(b. 1985), footballer

Sister towns

* Benalmádena (

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) *

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). This twinnage makes Nuevitas the first sister city in Cuba to be linked with a city in the United States.

References

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{{Authority control Cities in Cuba Populated places in Camagüey Province Port cities and towns in Cuba Populated places established in 1775 1775 establishments in the Spanish West Indies 1770s in Cuba