Santa Lucía is a

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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

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. In 2011 it had a population of 4,240.

History

The village was founded and developed from the discovery of a

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field in Minas de Matahambre, in 1912. It was built a road from the deposit to the sea and, one year later, a

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in the new harbor of Santa Lucía. During the 1980s, because of the

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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

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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

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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

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Transport

Santa Lucía counts a little

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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

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, 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

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venue, the "Estadio Camilo Cienfuegos", located northwest of settlement's centre.

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