Regla (Cuba)
Regla is one of the 15 districts of Havana with 42,420 inhabitants on an area of 9.2 km² (2012 census). Regla has administrative status as a municipality .
The place is a commercial and industrial suburb with shipyards , docks , refineries and foundries and is known for its rich colonial history. It is the hometown of the writer Dulce Chacón (1954-2003), the Guaracheros de Regla and the traditional Santería celebrations of the Virgen de Regla .
During the colonial period, Regla was formed around the Nuestra Señora de Regla chapel, founded in 1690 . During the 19th century the place was a center for smuggling activities.
In June 1847, the first 200 Chinese contract workers arrived in Cuba in Regla, who were brought into the country as cheap labor to partially replace the African slaves, and their number later rose to around 150,000 across the island. Several hundred Chinese settled in Regla. A memorial plaque at the harbor commemorates the historic event of 1847.
The sister city of Reglas is Richmond , California . The Colina Lenin ( Lenin Hill) is also located in Regla .
Web links
- Regla in the Cuban state online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
- Guije.com estudios en la cultura y la historia de Cuba: El Municipio de Regla
Individual evidence
- ↑ Guije.com estudios en la cultura y la historia de Cuba: La Virgen de Regla ; Coordinates: 23 ° 7 '53.7 " N , 82 ° 20' 10.5" W.
- ^ Kathleen López: The Revitalization of Havana's Chinatown: Invoking Chinese Cuban History. In: Walton Look Lai, Chee Beng Tan (Ed.): The Chinese in Latin America and the Carribbean. Brill, Leiden 2010, p. 211.
- ^ Bert Hoffmann: Cuba. CH Beck, Munich 2009, p. 141.
- ^ Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History. University of North Carolina Press 2013, pp. 83 f.
