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	Matanzas - LoveToKnow 1911
		Matanzas is frequently mentioned in the annals of the 16th and 17th centuries, when its bay was frequented by buccaneers; but the city was not laid out until 1693.
		The mulatto poet, Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes, known as Placido (1809-1844), was born in Matanzas, and was executed there for participation in the supposed conspiracy of negroes in 1844, which is one of the most famous episodes in Cuban history.
		Iluro), a seaport of north-eastern Spain, in the province of Barcelona, on the Mediterranean Sea and the Barcelona-Perpignan railway.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Matanzas (665 words)

	Cuba-Junky \| Matanzas City
		Matanzas grew around a large bay, well protected by a solid network of fotresses the most important of which can still be visited and admired today.
		The first person to play a Danzon at the Matanzas Lyceum was young clarinet player Miguel Failde Perez, who on the 1st of January, 1879, directed his typical band of wind instruments, playing his composition called Las alturas de Simpson (Simpson Heights), which is a very popular neighborhood in that city founded in 1693.
		Perched on the western side of the Matanzas bay, it was acompleted in 1734 with the aim of protecting trade in the area, while also guarding the eastern flank of Havana against pirate attacks.
	www.cuba-junky.com /matanzas/matanzas-city-home.htm (732 words)

	Matanzas's turistic maps and information
		North half of the province is occupied by plains whereas to the south are muddy lands.
		The enviroment of the province include, in addition, Cárdenas, city of cars and horses, and first town of Cuba in using the electrical energy for the public lighting system and site where was the national flag.
		In the South portion of Matanzas is located the Great Natural Park Montemar in the Zapata peninsula, one of the ecosystems better conserved of the continent, dislocated in an area of 70 thousand hectares with great extensions of forests, “manglares”, coastal bog and pasture.
	www.rentaencuba.com /en/mapas_matanzas.htm (454 words)

	The City of Matanzas
		Matanzas is a city of 250,000 people 100 km east of Havana and is the capital of a province of the same name.
		Matanzas is a sister city to Pittsburgh, PA in a program that has enabled both sides to engage their respective institutions and resources in an open structure.
		Matanzas Province was the site of a vicious US biowar attack in 1997 which had long lasting effects on the output of crops grown in the province.
	www.afrocubaweb.com /matanzas.htm (306 words)

	Cuba-Junky \| Matanzas Province
		Province of the famous Varadero beaches and resorts, the city of Cardenas, Pigs Bay, and Cayo Largo.
		Matanzas is called the Athens of Cuba because of its active cultural institutions, known for many as the city of the bridges and the rivers.
		Matanzas, around 67 miles (108 km) away, is a city with a virgorous artistic, musical and literary movement, plus buildings of great archtectural and historic value.
	www.cuba-junky.com /matanzas/index.htm (437 words)

	cuba hotel guide book .com - Cuban province of Matanzas
		The north of the province is marked by rolling hills and the beach resort of Varadero, the south is home to a large area of swamp land and the beach of Giron, better known as the Bay of Pigs.
		Central Matanzas is a long stretch of rolling plains whose red and fertile soils produce the highest yield of sugar crop in the country.
		Varadero, in the western Cuban province of Matanzas, is the beach par excellence in the archipelago, despite strong competition from islets in the Jardines del Rey tourist region.
	www.cubahotelguidebook.com /province_view.asp?pID=4&plID=4 (889 words)

	Matanzas Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matanzas is one of the provinces of Cuba.
		Major towns in the province include Cárdenas, Jovellanos and the capital of the same name, Matanzas.
		Of Cuba's provinces, Matanzas is one of the most industrialised, with petroleum wells, refineries, supertanker facilities, and 21 sugar mills to process the harvests of the fields of sugarcane in the province.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matanzas_Province (245 words)

	Matanzas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matanzas is the capital of the Cuban Province Matanzas.
		Matanzas is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, in the bay of Matanzas (spanish Bahia de Matanzas), 90km east of the capital Havana and 42km west of the resort town of Varadero.
		Matanzas is called the city of bridges, of which there are a lot, crossing the tree rivers that traverse the city (Rio Yumuri, San Juan and Canimar) and "La Atenas de Cuba" (the Athens of Cuba).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Matanzas (263 words)

	Matanzas - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Matanzas has a tourist industry as well as many mineral springs.
		Matanzas, 'the Athens of Cuba,' is worth trip.(Arts and Lifestyle)
		The Spanish built Fort Matanzas to guard the back door of the city of St. Augustine.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-matanz-pro.html (340 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Matanzas
		In the northern half of the province are plains; in the south are low-lying
		Located on a peninsula between the Matanzas and San Sebastian rivers, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by Anastasia Island; the Intracoastal Waterway passes through the city.
		Las Ãºltimas matanzas serbias en Kosovo aceleran el plan de ataque de la OTAN.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Matanzas (526 words)

	Matanzas Province : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		In addition to Varadero, the province is home to the lovely colonial-era cities of Matanzas and Cárdenas, as well as the Ciénaga de Zapata, a vast wetlands area of mangrove and swamp taking up most of the southern half of the province.
		The southern section of Matanzas province also holds great historical and sentimental value to modern Cubans, as it was here, in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), that the nascent Cuban revolutionary state defeated an invasion force trained, supplied, and abetted by the United States.
		Matanzas remains an important agricultural region with huge sugar plantations, as well as citrus groves and cattle ranches.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/matanzasprovince/3185010001.html (181 words)

	Cuba News / Yahoo! - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		Agricultural damage was particularly severe in the central province of Matanzas, where 99,000 tons of oranges were lost in the storm, the Communist Party daily Granma said Tuesday.
		The province's crop of plantains, a staple food in this Caribbean nation, was also devastated, the newspaper said.
		As he toured other parts of Matanzas province and Villa Clara province to the east, Castro reiterated fears that the storm had damaged key crops including coffee plants, citrus trees and sugarcane.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y01/nov01/07e4.htm (1359 words)

	Spero News \| Cuban sugar mill poses explosive risk
		One of the main industrial sugar refining complexes in the province of Matanzas, in the west of Cuba, has been blamed for an underground build-up of methane gas and other violations of environmental law that are putting thousands of families in the area at risk.
		Other residents of Matanzas said on Tuesday that they had not yet obtained a copy of Juventud Rebelde, but that they were keen on reading the article.
		In Matanzas province, 48 percent of the water is derived from the surface, and the rest is groundwater.
	www.speroforum.com /site/article.asp?id=3572 (999 words)

	Matanzas City, Cuba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The city of Matanzas (founded in 1693), land of poets also known for its many bridges that enrich the urban area, is also known as the Athens, and the Venice of Cuba.
		There is also in Matanzas a sui generis Pharmaceutical Museum, which together with the Oscar María de Rojas Museum, opened at the beginning of the XX century, and Sauto Theater, compliment the cultural offer this province offers to visitors.
		Out of the 14 provinces the island is divided into, Matanzas is probably the one with the highest number and the greater density of tourism attractions, among which, the beach resort of
	www.cuba.tc /Matanzas.html (673 words)

	Matanzas Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Matanzas province borders on Havana Province to the West and Villa Clara Province and Cienfuegos Province to the East.
		Matanzas is the second largest province area wise and has about 650,000 people.
		The north coast is mostly rocky around Matanzas City and sandy at Varadero Beach.
	cubatravelusa.com /matanzas_province1.htm (149 words)

	Pittsburgh Matanzas Sister City Association
		Matanzas is a hemispheric center of African cultures in the Diaspora.
		PMSCP delegation and students will also tour Matanzas province to assess the damage Hurricane Michelle inflicted on Pittsburgh's sister city, and to plan in what ways humanitarian and other aid can be most beneficial.
		Vice Rector of the Theological Seminary of Matanzas and Director of the Center of Studies of the Cuban Churches Council.
	www.uscsca.org /matanzas-pittsburgh.htm (1784 words)

	Cuba Junky - Matanzas City
		All Info on Matanzas Province, Matanzas City, Varadero and Cardenas...
		Could be this name come from, the beginning of de 16th century the Spaniards kill a lot of Indians the regular inhabitants of this area, but a second story is about just the killing of cows and other animals and were shipped from Hicacosanyway, the name Matanzas is strange.
		Plaza de la Libertad - Matanzas' second most important colonial plaza, it dates back from 1800.
	www.xs4all.nl /~verlaan1/matanzas/matanzas-city-home.htm (656 words)

	hurr
		The province of Matanzas is one of the main
		Matanzas was the first province to feel the impact of the storm, which traversed the country from south to north with an area of influence of 500 kms and winds averaging 165 kms per hour and peaking at 250 kms per hour.
		The province will have to produce more than one million concrete blocks by late January, and 20,000 tonnes of cement, 36,000 fibre-cement roofing tiles and 60,000 tonnes of sand will be needed in Matanzas alone.
	homepages.poptel.org.uk /markburton/hurr.htm (10805 words)

	Matanzas (city) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Matanzas (city) - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		City, large center of population organized as a community.
		Search for books about your topic, "Matanzas (city)"
	encarta.msn.com /Matanzas_(city).html (189 words)

	AllRefer.com - Matanzas, province, Cuba, Cuba (Cuban Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Matanzas, province, Cuba, Cuba (Cuban Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		In the northern half of the province are plains; in the south are low-lying wetlands.
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Matanzas, province, Cuba
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Matanz-pro.html (201 words)

	Cuba-Pictures.com - Cuba travel photos of Matanzas and Varadero
		Home Cuba Map Galleria Hotels Resources About Us The Province of Matanzas, Cuba, east of Havana, includes the Caribbean's largest resort complex at Varadero Beach.
		The old city of Matanzas is just a short drive west of Varadero, but most visitors are bused straight through on their way to Havana.
		Matanzas and Varadero Beach face the Atlantic Ocean, and the Caribbean coast to the south is often warmer and quieter.
	www.cuba-pictures.com /matanzas (398 words)

	freadom.info: Cuban Librarians in Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		On 26 March 2003 he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for "desobediencia" at the Tribunal de Jovellanos, Matanzas province.
		In April he was tried at the Tribunal Popular Municipal in Pedro Betancourt, Matanzas province, and sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment for "desobediencia" and "resistencia", which he is said to have committed at the time of his arrest.
		He is also said to be awaiting a third trial in which the prosecutor is asking for 15-25 years' imprisonment although it is not known what the charges are.
	freadom.info /cuban_librarians_in_.html (2682 words)

	Caribbean Anole Database - Cuban Species List4
		Dist: Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas Provinces.
		Dew: Red with two or three gree or yellow small semicircular bars, inner scales and edge white.
		Dist: Extreme western La Havana Province to Pinar del Rio Province.
	www.homestead.com /anolis/cubalist4.html (432 words)

	CHC Digital: Online Resources for Cuban and Cuban American Studies
		Note: Notations on verso: "Scene in Havana Province" and "Used October 1923." Probably used by the Munson Steamship Line in their publication, The Cuba Review.
		The old war dogs of the punta fort Solferino guarding the harbor of Matanzas, [between 1900 and 1920]
		Camino de las Cuevas de [Bellamar], Matanzas = On the roads to the [Bellamar] Caves, Matanzas, [between 1900 and 1920]
	digital.library.miami.edu /chcdigital/chc5017/chc5017_series4.shtml (1038 words)

	The Jews of Cuba
		According to the UN Resident Coordinator's office in Havana, Hurricane Dennis has caused extensive damage in 11 provinces, affecting some 8 million persons, out of the total population of 11.1 million, rendering this one of the most devastating natural phenomena affecting the country in the last decades.
		Agriculture: In the provinces of Villa Clara and Cienfugos, the mango, papaya, orange and banana as well as the irrigation systems, suffered considerable damage.
		In Granma Province several thousands hectares of grains, cabbages and corn were destroyed.
	www.jewishcuba.org /hurricanedennis.html (958 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 89036040
		Publisher description for Cuban rural society in the nineteenth century : the social and economic history of monoculture in Matanzas / Laird W. Bergad.
		He focuses on Matanzas, the center of the Cuban slave-based sugar economy, and shows how dependence on this one product generated great wealth but ultimately produced an unstable society in which most people remained poor and illiterate.
		He presents a detailed study of the economics of slave labor and new data that challenges prior interpretations of Cuban slavery.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/prin031/89036040.html (248 words)

	Cuba-Pictures.com - travel photos of Province of Havana
		A few resorts exist at Playa Jibacoa on the way, but most travelers cross the Puente Bacunayagua into Matanzas Province without delay.
		The Province of Havana doesn't include the city of Havana.
		Instead it's a broad stretch of rolling or flat countryside largely covered by sugarcane which is used to feed the country's largest rum factory at Santa Cruz del Norte.
	www.cuba-pictures.com /havana/prov.html (357 words)

	Cuba Travel Hotels .com - Cuba hotels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This superior category hotel is situated on a pristine white sand beach on the idyllic island of Cayo Guillermo.
		On the stretch of fine white-sand beach of Cayo Guillermo, to the north of Ciego de Avila province, of easy access by land through a causeway, 20 km.
		Club Amigo Caracol is located on the white-sand Santa Lucía Beach, in eastern Camagüey province.
	www.cubatravelhotels.com /showlist.asp?Lang=0&loc=zone-107 (309 words)

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