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Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos is a city on the southern coast of Cuba, capital of the Cienfuegos Province. It is located about 250 km from Havana, and has a population of 150,000.
Cienfuegos, one of the chief seaports of Cuba, is a center of the sugar trade also coffee and tobacco. Near the entrance to the Bahia de Cienfuegos is Castillo de Jagua, a fortress erected in the 1740s for protection against Caribbean pirates. The city was founded by French settlers from Louisiana. While sugarcane is the chief crop, local farmers grow coffee.
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