Mayabeque Province

Mayabeque is a redirect to this article. For other meanings, see Mayabeque (disambiguation) .

Mayabeque
Capital	San Jose de las Lajas
surface	3733 km²
Residents	376,825 (2012)
Population density	100.7 inhabitants / km²
ISO code	CU-16

Mayabeque is one of the two new provinces in Cuba , which emerged on January 1, 2011 from the division of the Havana Land province . The province is named after the river Río Mayabeque .

Mayabeque consists of the eastern part of the old Havana Land province. In the west it borders on the province of Artemisa , which was also founded in 2011 , in the northwest on the capital Havana and in the east on the province of Matanzas . The northern border forms the coastline to the Florida Strait and the Gulf of Batabanó borders in the south .

The province of Mayabeque consists of 13 municipalities and has 381,466 inhabitants on an area of ​​3733 km², which corresponds to a population density of 102.2 per square kilometer. The capital of the province is San José de las Lajas .

Administrative division

Mayabeque Province Map

Municipio	Area (km²)	Residents	per km²
Batabanó	263.43	26,944	102.3
Bejucal	116.36	26,966	231.7
Güines	433.09	67,919	156.8
Jaruco	275.9	25,135	91.1
Madruga	459.58	29,805	64.9
Melena del Sur	233.56	20,646	88.4
Nueva Paz	522.8	25,471	48.7
Quivicán	227.1	29,463	129.7
San Jose de las Lajas	592.67	74.186	125.2
San Nicolás de Bari	228.86	20,695	90.4
Santa Cruz del Norte	379.38	34,216	90.2
Total	3,732.73	381,446	102.2

Source: Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas e Instituto de Planificación Física / 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Census 2012 (PDF; 257 kB) , ONE
2. ↑ Hemos adoptado importantes decisionses que constituyen en sí mismas un cambio estructural y de concepto en interés de preservar y desarrollar nuestro sistema social y hacerlo sostenible en el futuro , Granma of August 2, 2010
3. ↑ ¿Por qué Artemisa y Mayabeque? , Granma of July 30, 2010
4. ↑ Proponen en Pleno del Partido dos nuevas provincias cubanas: Artemisa y Mayabeque (+ Infografía)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , Periódico 5 de Septiembre from June 8, 2010
5. ↑ ^{a b} Modificación de la División Político Administrativa - Mejor atención al pueblo y más funcional ( Memento of the original of July 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Granma of July 23, 2010

Coordinates: 22 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  N , 82 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  W.