Sandino (Cuba)
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Coordinates: 22 ° 5 ′ N , 84 ° 12 ′ W
Sandino on the map of Cuba
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| Country |
 Cuba
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| province | Pinar del Río |
| City foundation | 1964 |
| Residents | 37,293 (2012) |
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| surface | 1709 km 2 |
| Population density | 21.8 inhabitants / km 2 |
| height | 10 m |
| Waters |
Caribbean Sea Gulf of Mexico Yucatan Strait |
| prefix | + 53-82 |
| Time zone | UTC -5 |
Sandino is a city and a municipality in the Pinar del Río Province in Cuba .
history
Sandino was founded in 1964 as an artificial prison camp, in which the government forcibly removed peasant families from their homeland in the central Cuban Escambray Mountains who actually or supposedly supported the rebels in the fight against Fidel Castro's authoritarian rule in the civil war that flared up after the revolution from 1960 onwards had. The buildings in the site, which has been fenced off with barbed wire for a long time, were built using forced labor by men abducted from the conflict zone in the province of Las Villas, who, after the construction work was completed, were able to bring their families, who had previously been separated from them, to live in these apartments under permanent state surveillance.
Sandino consists of the main town Ciudad Sandino, which is surrounded by smaller, agricultural towns. The settlement got its name as a tribute to the Nicaraguan guerrilla leader Augusto César Sandino .
In August 2005, Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez inaugurated the “Villa Bolívar” in Sandino - a residential complex financed by the Venezuelan government for 150 families whose homes had previously been destroyed by hurricanes.
In 2014 it was announced that Sandino would be the site for the first government-approved Catholic church building since the 1959 revolution. The construction project was to be developed in cooperation with the local believers and a Cuban church in exile in Tampa , Florida .
Geographical location
Sandino is located in the extreme southwest of both the province of Pinar del Río and all of Cuba and covers 1709 km² in area. If you add the adjacent cayos , you get a total area of 1715.28 km². In the north it borders on the municipalities of Guane and Mantua as well as the Gulf of Mexico , in the west lies the Yucatán Strait and in the south the Caribbean Sea . 68.7% of the area of the municipality's territory belong to the Guanahacabibes peninsula , which has been a UNESCO biosphere reserve since 1987.
The municipality, which has existed in its current expansion since the territorial reform of 1976, now has 37,293 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 21.8 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Web links
- Sandino (Municipio) in the state-run Cuban online encyclopedia EcuRed (Spanish)
- Radio Sandino , website of the local state radio station (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b En “pueblo cautivo” de Sandino se construirá la primera iglesia en Cuba después de 55 años, in: ACI Press of July 8, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2015 (Spanish)
- ↑ Aleida Durán: Un Secreto Bien Guardado: los Pueblos Cautivos de Cuba in: Contacto o. D., accessed on January 10, 2017 (Spanish)
- ↑ Ronald Suárez Rivas: Ciudad Sandino rejuvenece, in: Granma from August 13, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2015 (Spanish)
