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Historically Santiago de Cuba was the second-most important city on the island after Havana, and remains the second-largest. It is on a bay connected to the Caribbean Sea and an important sea port. In the 2022, the city of Santiago de Cuba recorded a population of 507,167 people. [4]
There was a drop between the 2002 and 2012 censuses which was the first drop in Cuba's population since Cuba's war of independence. ... Santiago de Cuba: 1,023.8: 0. ...
Map of Cuba Havana, Capital of Cuba Santiago de Cuba Camagüey Holguín Santa Clara Guantánamo. This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order. Population data refers to city proper and not to the whole municipality, because they include large rural areas with several villages.
Diego Velazquez founded the capital of Oriente province in 1514 and named it Santiago de Cuba. The province comprises 22 municipalities and is Cuba's largest province containing about one third of the country's population. Oriente Province is in the most eastern region of Cuba with a population of 1,797,606. [3]
Santiago de Cuba Province is the second most populated province in the island of Cuba. ... In 2004, the province of Santiago De Cuba had a population of 1,043,202. [3]
The population of Cuba was 11,167,325 inhabitants in 2012. [22] The largest urban populations of Cubans in Cuba (2012) are to be found in Havana (2,106,146), Santiago de Cuba (506,037), Holguín (346,195), Camagüey (323,309), Santa Clara (240,543) and Guantánamo (228,436). [ 23 ]
1514 - August: Santiago de Cuba founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar. [1] [2] 1518 - Roman Catholic diocese of Baracoa established. [3] 1522 Capital of Cuba relocated to Santiago from Baracoa. [4] [2] Coat of arms granted. [5] [2] Santiago de Cuba Cathedral named as a cathedral by Pope Adrian VI. [2] 1526 - Fire. [5] 1535 - Fire. [5]
Camagüey (before 1899 named "Puerto Príncipe"), contained the present-day provinces of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila, as well as two municipalities of current Las Tunas Province (prior to 1970). Oriente (before 1905 named "Santiago de Cuba"), contained the present-day provinces of Las Tunas, Granma, Holguín, Santiago de Cuba and Guantánamo