🏛️ Historic Centre of Cienfuegos

Cuba · Americas · Cultural · 22.15°N, 80.44°W

Cienfuegos, capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about 250 km (160 mi) from Havana and has a population of 178,368 in 2022. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, especially in the energy and sugar sectors. The city is dubbed La Perla del Sur. Despite being known as an industrial city of factories and various power plants, and the name Cienfuegos literally translating to "one hundred fires", the city actually takes its name from the surname of Asturian-born José Cienfuegos Jovellanos, Captain General of Cuba (1816–19).

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Quick facts

Country	Cuba
Continent / region	Americas
List type	🏛️ Cultural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	22.15°N, 80.44°W · view on map

Historic Centre of Cienfuegos is a cultural World Heritage site in Cuba, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Historic Centre of Cienfuegos was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in Cuba

Old Havana and its City Walls · Trinidad · Alejandro de Humboldt National Park · Desembarco del Granma National Park · Old Havana and its Fortification System · Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios · Viñales Valley · San Pedro de la Roca Castle, Santiago de Cuba · Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba · Urban Historic Centre of Cienfuegos · Historic Centre of Camagüey.

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