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Cienfuegos

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Cienfuegos (syānfwā`gōs), city (1995 est. pop. 125,000), capital of Cienfuegos prov., central Cuba, a port on the Caribbean Sea. It is the marketing and processing center of a region producing sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, and rice; it also has rum distilleries and fish canneries. The city is Cuba's leading sugar exporting port as well as a major fishing port. Founded in 1819 by French emigrants from Louisiana and named for one of the original founders, Cienfuegos was destroyed by a tropical storm in 1825 and later rebuilt.
Cienfuegos 

a city and port on the southern coast of Cuba, capital of the province of Cienfuegos. Population, 85,200 (1970). Cienfuegos has enterprises for the production of chemicals, tobacco goods, foodstuffs, leather and footwear, textiles, construction materials, and ships. The city also has a thermal electric power plant. Cienfuegos is the base for a shrimping fleet.



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The Camilo Cienfuegos PDV-Cupet Joint Venture Refinery has processed 35 million barrels of oil since its opening in 2008, reports Juventud Rebelde newspaper (Aug.
Santa Clara (SNC) and Cienfuegos (CFG) international airports, located less than 50 miles from each other in central Cuba, are remnants of the extensive military infrastructure that was developed in Cuba during the height of the Cold War.
Perhaps only next to Fidel and ChE[umlaut] in popularity and as a symbol of the revolution among the Cuban people, Camilo Cienfuegos was one of the Rebel Army's top two Comandantes, leading a 700-strong column responsible for attacking government troops in CamagE-ey and Las Villas.
 
 
 
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