Cienfuegos,
originally Fernandina de Jagua, city in south central Cuba,
capital of
Cienfuegos Province, on Bahía de Cienfuegos
(an arm of the Caribbean Sea). The region surrounding the city
is one of the most picturesque and fertile in Cuba. Sugarcane
is the chief crop; coffee and tobacco are also grown, and cattle
are raised. Cienfuegos is one of the chief seaports of Cuba and
is a center of the sugar trade. Near the entrance to Bahía
de Cienfuegos, first visited by Christopher Columbus, is the
Castillo de Jagua, a fortress erected (1740-1745) for protection
against Caribbean pirates. The city was founded in 1819 by
French settlers from Louisiana and was badly damaged by a tropical
storm
in 1825. During the Spanish-American War (1898) it was blockaded
by two United States warships under Admiral Winfield Scott Schley. Hostels in Cienfuegos |
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