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Placetas (pläsā`täs), city (1994 est. pop. 42,000), Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. Tobacco processing is the city's chief industry. Placetas is located on a major highway and serves as a railroad center. The city was founded in 1867.

Placetas

a city in the central part of Cuba. Population, 32,300 (1970). Placetas has food-processing, tobacco, leather-goods (including footwear), and garment industries. It also has enterprises that produce building materials. There are sugarcane and tobacco plantations in the city’s outskirts. [19—1895—4]

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No references found			He also mentioned the construction of the Pinalito (50MW), Palomino (80MW) and Las Placetas (87MW) hydroelectric plants that will improve energy production, and spoke of efforts to replace 13 million light bulbs, which could save the energy sector 170MW of power per month. Electricity sector update by Caribbean Update Other important cities and towns, according to the 2002 census, are Sagua la Grande (41,756 people); Placetas (40,982); Caiba-rien (32,679); Manicaragua (22,851); Camajuani (22,796); Remedios (22,000); Santo Domingo (17,000); Ranchuelo (16,000); Vueltas (13,000); Esperanza (12,000); Quemado de Guines (11,000) and Encrucijada (10,000). In wake of sugar crisis, Villa Clara's population shrinking by Portela, Armando H. / CubaNews Armando Garcia, chief of operations for the Geominera del Centro Co, said the gold mine is located in the municipality of Placetas and the copper-zinc mine in Manicaragua. Cuba to mine gold, copper-zinc by Caribbean Update			place kick place of assembly place value Place, Francis placeability placebo placeholder placement Placenta placenta accreta placenta previa Placenta, Artificial placental barrier Placentation Placentia Placentia Bay Placer placer claim Placer County placer deposit placer dredge placer location placer mining Placerita Canyon State Park placeshifting Placetas placic horizon Placid Lake State Park Placid, Lake Placidia Placido Plácido placing placita Placode Placodermi Placodontia Placoid Scale Placothuriidae Placzek, Adolph K. Plafond Plagal Cadence plage Plaggept plagiaplite Plagiarism Plagiaulacida Plagiaulacidae plagiocephaly Plagioclase plagioclase feldspar			places places a premium on places a premium on places a premium on places a premium on places a premium on Places an Issue Places an Issue Places an Issue Places an Issue Places an Issue Places for People Places in Bible Sin Places named Decatur Places named Decatur Places named Macedonia Places named Macedonia Places of Refuge Places of worship Places the Issue Places the Issue Places the Issue Places the Issue Places the Issue Places to Go People to See placeseeker Placeshift Placeshifting Placet Placet Placetas Placetas, Cuba placets placets placic horizon placid placid Placid International Oil Ltd. Placid Lake State Park Placid, Lake Placid, Lake Placida Placida Placidia Placidil Placidil placidity placidity placidly placidly placidness placidness Placido Placido Plácido Plácido (film) Placido disc Placido disc Placido Domingo Placido Domingo Plácido Domingo

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