The roof terrace of Palacio de Valle in southern Cienfuegos at night.

Cienfuegos is a city on the southern coast of Cuba, capital of the province of Cienfuegos. It is located about 250km (155 miles) from Havana, and has a population of 150,000. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1644x2229, 68 KB)Photograph by Dirk van der Made (user:DirkvdM). ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1644x2229, 68 KB)Photograph by Dirk van der Made (user:DirkvdM). ... Montreal skyline at night For alternate meanings see city (disambiguation) A city is an urban area that is differentiated from a town, village, or hamlet by size, population density, importance, or legal status. ... A coastal image featured on a United States postal stamp. ... In politics, a capital (also called capital city or political capital — although the latter phrase has an alternative meaning based on an alternative meaning of capital) is the principal city or town associated with its government. ... Provinces of Cuba Cuba consists of 14 provinces, plus one special municipality. ... Statistics Capital: Cienfuegos Area: 4,178km² Inhabitants: 386,100 Population Density: 66. ... Havana (Spanish: San Cristóbal de La Habana; UN/LOCODE: Habana (CU HAV)) is the capital of Cuba and, with a population of 2. ...

Near the entrance to the Bahia de Cienfuegos (bahia meaning "bay") is Castillo de Jagua, a fortress erected in the 1740s for protection against Caribbean pirates. The city was settled by French immigrants from Louisiana in 1819. Its original name was Fernardina de Jagua, subsequently changed to Cienfuegos, which literally translates to "Hundredfires". In geography, a bay or gulf is a collection of water that is surrounded by land on three sides. ... Fortifications (Latin fortis, strong, and facere, to make) are military constructions designed for defensive warfare. ... Events and Trends The War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748) rages. ... ... A pirate digging…perhaps to bury treasure, perhaps a grave. ... State nickname: Pelican State Official languages English and French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans at last official government census, but probably Baton Rouge since Hurricane Katrina Governor Kathleen Blanco (D) Senators Mary Landrieu (D) David Vitter (R) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 31st 134,382 km² 16 Population  - Total... 1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...

The downtown contains 6 buildings from 1819-50, 327 buildings from 1851-1900, and 1188 buildings from the 20th century. There is no other place in the Caribbean which contains such a remarkable cluster of Neoclassical structures. In 2005, UNESCO inscribed the downtown on the World Heritage List, citing Cienfuegos as the best extant example of the 19th-century Hispanic colonial city. Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... UNESCO logo The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, commonly known as UNESCO, is a specialized agency of the United Nations system established in 1945. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ...

Cienfuegos, one of the chief seaports of Cuba, is a center of the sugar trade, as well as coffee and tobacco. While sugarcane is the chief crop, local farmers grow coffee. Magnified view of refined sugar crystals. ... A fruit stand at a market. ... Coffee is a drink, usually hot, prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. ... Species N. glauca N. longiflora N. rustica N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005 Tobacco (, L.) refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America, or to the dried and cured leaves of such plants. ... Species Saccharum arundinaceum Saccharum bengalense Saccharum edule Saccharum officinarum Saccharum procerum Saccharum ravennae Saccharum robustum Saccharum sinense Saccharum spontaneum Sugar cane Saccharum officinarum at Kew Gardens, London Sugarcane or Sugar cane (Saccharum) is a genus of between 6–37 species (depending on taxonomic interpretation) of tall grasses (family Poaceae, tribe... A farmer in Germany working the land in the traditional way, with horse and plough Agriculture is the process of producing food, feed, fiber and other desired products by the cultivation of certain plants and the raising of domesticated animals (livestock). ... Bales of hay on a farm near Ames, Iowa A farm is the basic unit in agriculture. ...

In 2005, Hurricane Dennis made its second landfall near Cienfuegos at about 1:00PM AST (17:00 UTC) with winds of 232km/h (144 MPH), and gusts reaching 285km/h (177 MPH). Ongoing events • 2005 Atlantic and Pacific hurricanes • 2005 Maharashtra floods • 2005 Gujarat Flood • Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan • Fuel prices • Gomery Comm. ... B C D E F G H I 10 J K L M N O P R 19 S T 22 V W Αα Ββ Γγ Δδ Εε Categories: | | | | | ... Landfall has two meanings: Landfall, Minnesota the place or time at which a hurricane or waterspout, or even a boat hits land Landfall is also the title of New Zealands most important literary journal. ... UTC also stands for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as Zulu time, the basis for civil time, differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. ... Wind is the roughly horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by uneven heating of the Earths surface. ... Kilometre per hour (American spelling: kilometer per hour) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector). ... Miles per hour is a unit of speed, expressing the number of international miles covered per hour. ... Wind is the quasi-horizontal movement of air (as opposed to an air current) caused by a horizontal pressure gradient force. ...

The Parque José Martí in central Cienfuegos.

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