Cabañas is a village and ''

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'' of the municipality of Mariel, in the

Artemisa Province Artemisa Province is one of the two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Mayabeque Province. The new provinces came into existen ...

, on the northeast coast in western

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History

Prior to 1970 was a

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. Cabañas bay is a harbor with industrial and fishing facilities, with an important base of the Cuban Navy. From November to December 1958, the town was the site of a

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by anti-communist forces during the

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. Authorities began by killing two farmers who they thought were connected to an earlier guerilla attack on Government bases. The soldiers are reported to have killed dozens of suspected communists and witnesses until December. The ''

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'' recorded the names of twelve people who died during the massacre.

Geography

Located in the western corner of the , by the

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, Cabañas lies between Mariel ( west) and Bahía Honda ( east), and is crossed in the middle by the state highway "

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" (CN). It is from Guanajay, from

Artemisa Artemisa () is a municipality and city in Cuba, formerly part of La Habana Province. According to a law approved by the Cuban National Assembly in August 2010, Artemisa became the capital city of the newly formed Artemisa Province, which compri ...

and from

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References

External links

Populated places in Artemisa Province {{Cuba-geo-stub