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Capital:	Holguín
Area:	9,300 km²
Inhabitants:	1,013,600
Population Density:	109 per km²
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Holguín is one of the provinces of Cuba, the second most populous after Ciudad de la Habana. It lies in the southeast of the country. Its major cities include Holguín (the capital), Banes, Antilla, Mayarí, and Moa. Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Provinces of Cuba Cuba consists of 14 provinces, plus one special municipality. ...

The province has a population of slightly over one million people. Its territory extends over more than 9300 km², 25 percent of which are covered by forest.

Like much of Cuba, Holguín's economy is based around sugar, though mining, corn and coffee are also large earners for the province. This article deals with sugar as food and as an important, widely traded commodity; the word also has other uses; see Sugar (disambiguation) A sugar is a form of carbohydrate; the most commonly used sugar is a white crystalline solid, sucrose; used to alter the flavor and properties (mouthfeel, perservation... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... Species Zea diploperennis Zea luxurians Zea nicaraguensis Zea perennis References ITIS 42268 2002-09-22 Sorting Zea names This article is about the staple food. ... Coffee beans and a cup of coffee Coffee as a drink, usually served hot, is prepared from the roasted seeds (beans) of the coffee plant. ...

At Moa, there is a huge cobalt processing plant with shipping facilities, that was constructed with the help of foreign aid, much of it from Canada. There are chrome, nickel, iron and steel plants dotted throughout the province as well. General Name, Symbol, Number cobalt, Co, 27 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 9 , 4, d Density, Hardness 8. ... This article should be merged with [[{{{with}}}]] development aid and humanitarian aid Foreign aid, international aid or development assistance is when one country helps another country through some form of donation. ... Canada is a sovereign state in northern North America, the northern-most country in the world, and the second largest in total area. ... Chrome may refer to: (most commonly) chrome plating where the element chromium is fixed to a surface (in computer science) the chrome of an application, i. ... This article is about the element nickel. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metal Group, Period, Block 8 (VIIIB), 4 , d Density, Hardness 7874 kg/m3, 4. ... Steel framework Steel is a metal alloy whose major component is iron, with carbon being the primary alloying material. ...

Tourism has only recently begun to be exploited by the Castro government, and in Holguín, there are numerous hotels around the Guardalavaca area. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Cuban President Fidel Castro Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13, 1926) has ruled Cuba since 1959, when, leading the 26th of July Movement, he helped overthrow the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista and turn Cuba into the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere. ...

Christopher Columbus landed in what is today Holguín province on October 27, 1492. He declared that it was "the most beautiful country human eyes had ever seen". No authentic contemporary portrait of Columbus has been found; this late 19th-century engraving is one of many conjectural images For information about the director, see the article on Chris Columbus. ... October 27 is the 300th day of the year (301st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 65 days remaining. ... Events January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. ...

Municipalities

Holgúin is divided into 14 municipalities: A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ...

1. Antilla (Antilla)
2. Báguanos (Báguanos)
3. Banes (Banes)
4. Cacocum (Cacocum)
5. Calixto García (Buenaventura)
6. Cueto (Cueto)
7. Frank País (Cayo Mambí)
8. Gibara (Gibara)
9. Holguín (Holguín)
10. Mayarí (Mayarí)
11. Moa (Moa)
12. Rafael Freyre (Rafael Freyre)
13. Sagua de Tánamo (Sagua de Tánamo)
14. Urbano Noris (Urbano Noris)