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 a ...

, in

Pinar del Río Province The Pinar del Río Province is one of the 15 provinces of Cuba. It is at the western end of the island of Cuba. The capital and largest city is Pinar del Río (191,081 pop. in 2022). Geography The Pinar del Río province is Cuba's westernmost p ...

. 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

mining Mining is the Resource extraction, extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth. Mining is required to obtain most materials that cannot be grown through agriculture, agricultural processes, or feasib ...

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 Sierra de los Órganos () is a mountain range in the province of Pinar del Río, western Cuba. Along with the Sierra del Rosario, it is part of the Guaniguanico mountain range. Geography The ''Sierra'' is the western part of Guaniguanico and s ...

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, 13 from

, 43 from Viñales 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 191,081 (2022), it is the List of cities in Cuba, 10th-largest city in Cuba. Inhabitants of the area are called ''Pinareños''. History Pinar del Río was ...

and 64 from

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Transport

Santa Lucía counts a little

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, built in 1912 for of mining transport, with a

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. 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 Ocean, Atlantic Coast. With a length of 1,222 km, it is the second-longest Cuban highway, afte ...

" (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 Christopher ...

, 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

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venue, the "Estadio

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", located northwest of settlement's centre.

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