Santa Lucía is a
Cuba
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n village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of
Minas de Matahambre
Minas de Matahambre () is a municipality and town in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. It was declared a National Monument of Cuba.
Geography
The municipality faces the Gulf of Mexico to the north, where the cays of the Colorados Archipelago ar ...
, in
Pinar del Río Province
Pinar del Río is one of the provinces of Cuba. It is at the western end of the island of Cuba.
Geography
The Pinar del Río province is Cuba's westernmost province and contains one of Cuba's three main mountain ranges, the Cordillera de Guanig ...
. In 2011 it had a population of 4,240.
History
The village was founded and developed from the discovery of a
copper
Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...
field in Minas de Matahambre, in 1912. It was built a road from the
deposit to the sea and, one year later, a
pier
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in the new harbor of Santa Lucía. During the 1980s, because of the
mining
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development, the population grew and the satellite village of La Sabana was built east of it.
Geography
Santa Lucía lies between a
marsh
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, by the
Atlantic Coast, and the
Sierra de los Órganos mountain range (part of
Guaniguanico). It spans on a plain strip, along with the neighboring and satellite village of La Sabana, with whom it forms a small urban area of about 10,000 inhabitants.
The village is 11 km from
Cayo Jutías
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* Cayo District, a district in the west of the nation of Belize
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* ...
, 13 from
Minas de Matahambre
Minas de Matahambre () is a municipality and town in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. It was declared a National Monument of Cuba.
Geography
The municipality faces the Gulf of Mexico to the north, where the cays of the Colorados Archipelago ar ...
, 43 from
Viñales
Viñales is a town and municipality in the north-central Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. The town consists mostly of one-story wooden houses with porches. The municipality is dominated by low mountain ranges of the Cordillera de Guaniguanico su ...
and
its valley, 60 from
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río is the capital city of Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. With a population of 139,336 (2004) in a municipality of 190,332, it is the 10th-largest city in Cuba. Inhabitants of the area are called ''Pinareños''.
History
Pinar del R ...
and 64 from
Mantua
Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and '' comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.
In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, it was named as the Eur ...
.
Transport
Santa Lucía counts a little
harbor
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, built in 1912 for of mining transport, with a
marina. It is crossed, to the south, by the "
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), a state highway connecting the nearby Mantua to
Baracoa
Baracoa, whose full original name is: ''Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa'' (“Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa”), is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. It was visited by Admiral Christop ...
, in
Guantánamo Province
Guantánamo is the easternmost province of Cuba. Its capital is also called Guantánamo. Other towns include Baracoa. The province has the only land border of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay.
Overview
Guantánamo's architecture and cultu ...
, through the northern coastal area of the whole country. A secondary highway, the 1-121, connects the village to Minas de Matahambre and Pinar del Río, the provincial capital.
Sport
The village has a
baseball
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venue, the "Estadio
Camilo Cienfuegos", located northwest of settlement's centre.
See also
*
Municipalities of Cuba
The provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipalities or ''municipios''. They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. II, published by the United N ...
*
List of cities in Cuba
References
External links
Image gallery of Santa LucíaSanta Lucía Weatheron accuweather.com
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Populated places in Pinar del Río Province
Populated places established in 1912