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Havanna, Cuba, the Carribeanan city
By Mark on November 11, 2008
This is a post on Cuba one of the most interesting islands in the Carribeanan. Cuba is an island country situated surrounded by America, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico and the Bahamas. It is also known as the isle of youth,(isla de la juventud). The island is long and narrow, it is about 1,280km or 795 miles from east to west, and yet from north to south it is only 160 km or 100 miles. It is mainly flat ground with rolling country or coastal plains, crossed by fertile valleys, that have narrow rivers. But down towards the south-east, there are mountains and hills, the Sierra Maestra reaches 2,000 metres or 6,562 feet high above sea level. They cover about a quarter of island. Here are some satellite images of Cuba and the capital Havanna.
This is a satellite image of the Carribeanan, where you will find the larger island of Cuba, taken on Google Earth.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of Cuba and her neighbours.
This is a satellite image taken from Google Earth of the capital city of Cuba, Havanna.
Cuba was first settled by a tribe of people known as the Ciboney from South America around 3,000 bc. But by 1,000 bc a new tribe of Arawak Indians settled in eastern Cuba forcing out the Ciboney tribe. But the Ciboney remained in the west. Cuba was then iscovered many years later by the great sea explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492. But it was not until 1508, when the Spanish circumnavigated the island.
And in the year of 1511, the Spanish started to settle there, when Deigo Velasquez founded Havanna and other towns. in 1526 the Arawak Indians were almost extincted by European diseases. Black slaves were imported from other countries to help produce sugar and tobacco.
Britain seized Cuba in 1762-1763, but immediately exchanged it with the Spanish for Florida. Slave importion was to end in 1865, but it was not abolished until 1886.
America became very interested in the island , and many Americans fought in the unsuccessful first War of Independance(1868 – 1878), due to the sugar industry gaining momentum, the Americans tried again in the second War of Independance and this time they gained control of the island from 1895 to 1901. By 1902 the Republic of Cuba was proclaimed. Below is a picture of the capital city of Cuba.
This is a picture taken from panoramio of Havanna, the capital city of Cuba.
A corrupt and socially insensitive governments were formed culminating in the brutal regime of Gerardo Machado, between 1925 – 1933, which brought on the abortive revolution, 1933 – 1934 and the island was still under American protection.
Fulengio Batista, became president between 1940 – 1944and then again 1952 – 1959, and even though he has American support, the second time in power, his government became corrupted and ruthless, in 1956 this brought on a guerrilla war run by Fidel Castro and in 1959 a socialist regime government was created.
Fidel Castro was sickened by Cuba exiles invading Cochinos bay or knowing known as the Bay of Pigs in April 1961, and he survived the missile attack on him in 1962. But Castros successes in public health, education and housing were very considerable, even his human rights remained very poor.
Castro had many success’s and falls along his control of Cuba, learn more on Wikipedia.
Cuba is slowly recovering from the withdrawal of the U.S.S.R. Sugar is still the main industry in Cuba,s econonmy and together with tourism and the remittances of workers abroad the econonmy is starting to grow again which is an important source of revenue.
This is a picture taken from panoramio of a part Havanna city in Cuba.
This is a picture of a beautiful beach in Cuba, taken from panoramio.
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3 Responses to “Havanna, Cuba, the Carribeanan city”
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
5:24 pm on December 26th, 2010
Castro regimehad some developments in health, education and sports with marxist rethoric, but housing was always extremely poor. Looking at Havana roomy houses from colonial times or solares, which extremely poor dweeling, still remain in Cuba. The government never provided or sold materials to repair the houses and Havana is called the city with crutches. The new buildings did not cover the growing population of Cuba.
9:11 pm on February 3rd, 2011
Mark, First of all learn the spelling of all those people and places you mention, you’re making up names, Carribeanan, Havanna, Fulengio Batista, Deigo Velasquez; then learn English grammar so you can make your article coherent. Cuba is not surrounded by America, it is a part of the American continent, America is not the United States, Castro was never “sickened by Cuban exiles” (Did we give him the chicken pox?) nor received a missile attack (Was he hit by a missile in the rear?), there was an invasion on Girón Beach and the “missile crisis” (of Russian missiles, not missiles shot at him), was in October, 1962. The photograph you show is not “a picture taken of a part Havanna city”, it’s Galiano Street looking north from San Rafael. Get your facts straight before you write about it. Suárez, there was plenty of housing, not “the roomy colonial houses and the solares”, but plenty of modern apartment buildings up to December 1958 before he took over in January 1959, and, with all the people who left, there should have been more housing.
4:15 pm on February 4th, 2011
Mark, First of all learn the spelling of all those people and places you mention, you’re making up names, Carribeanan, Havanna, Fulengio Batista, Deigo Velasquez; then learn English grammar so you can make your article coherent. Cuba is not surrounded by America, it is a part of the American continent, America is not the United States, Castro was never “sickened by Cuban exiles” (Did we give him the chicken pox?) nor received a missile attack (Was he hit by a missile in the rear?), there was an invasion on Girón Beach and the “missile crisis” (of Russian missiles, not missiles shot at him), was in October, 1962. The photograph you show is not “a picture taken of a part Havanna city”, it’s Galiano Street looking north from San Rafael. Get your facts straight before you write about it. Suárez, there was plenty of housing, not “the roomy colonial houses and the solares”, but plenty of modern apartment buildings up to December 1958 before he took over in January 1959, and, with all the people who left, there should have been more housing.