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Zalesie Górne. Zalesie Górne [zaˈlɛɕɛ ˈɡurnɛ] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Piaseczno, within Piaseczno County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. [1] It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) south-east of Piaseczno and 19 km (12 mi) south of Warsaw. The village was founded in the 1930s, and as of ...
The provinces were created in 1879 by the Spanish colonial government. From 1879 to 1976, Cuba was divided into six provinces, which maintained with little changes the same boundaries and capital cities, although with modifications in official names. These "historical" provinces are the following (from west to east): Pinar del Río.
El Salto del Hanabanilla. El Salto del Hanabanilla, also known as Hanabanilla, is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Manicaragua, Villa Clara Province. As of 2014 the town has 137 homes making up a total of 436 inhabitants. Is a mountain resort famous for the homonym lake.
Overview. Jardines del Rey developed on the coral reef system that lines Cuba's shore, between the Atlantic Ocean, the Bay of Buena Vista and Bay of Jiguey. The reef, part of the Sabana-Camagüey Archipelago, extends for two hundred kilometres (120 miles) on a north-west to south-east direction. Jardines del Rey Airport is located on Cayo Coco.
Politics of Cuba. The provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipalities ( Spanish: municipios ). They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976 [ 1] and reformed in 2010 with the abrogation of the municipality of Varadero and the creation of two new provinces: Artemisa and Mayabeque in place of former La Habana Province .
Matanzas (Cuban Spanish pronunciation:; Lucumi: Ayá Áta) [4] is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas.Known for its poets, culture, and Afro-Cuban folklore, it is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas (Spanish Bahia de Matanzas), 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of the capital Havana and 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of the resort town of Varadero.
21°53′N 80°00′W / 21.883°N 80.000°W / 21.883; -80.000. Topes de Collantes is a nature reserve park in the Escambray Mountains range in Cuba. It also refers to the third highest peak in the reserve, where a small settlement and tourist center is located, all sharing the same name.
The Pact of Zanjón ended the Ten Years' War, the armed struggle of Cubans for independence from the Spanish Empire that lasted from 1868 to 1878. On February 10, 1878, a group of negotiators representing the rebels gathered in Zanjón, a village in Camagüey Province, and signed the document offered them by the Spanish commander in Cuba, General Arsenio Martínez Campos, who had arrived in ...