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Encyclopedia > Pinar del Río Province
Statistics
Capital: Pinar del Río
Area: 10,925km²
Inhabitants: 721,900
Population Density: 66.1 per km²
Map
Map showing Pinar del Río Province in Cuba

Pinar del Río is one of the provinces of Cuba. It is at the western end of the island of Cuba. 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 Republic of Cuba is an archipelago in the northern Caribbean that lies at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. ...


The Pinar del Río province contains one of Cuba's three main mountain ranges, the Cordillera de Guaniguanico, divided into the easterly Sierra del Rosario and the westerly Sierra de los Organos. These form a landscape characterised by steep sided limestone hills and flat, fertile valleys. The most general definition of mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands. ... Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... This article is about the physical-geographic term. ...


The province relies almost entirely on tobacco farming, with Pinar del Río producing 70% of Cuba's crop, used to make the cigars that are so prized overseas. The best tobacco, used for more expensive cigar brands, is grown in the flat lands San Juan y Martínez. Species N. alata N. bigelovil N. debneyi N. excelsior N. exigua N. glauca N. glutinosa N. kawakamii N. knightiana N. longiflora N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of 2002-08-28 Tobacco () is a broad-leafed plant of the nightshade family, indigenous to North and South America, whose... Corona cigar A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of tobacco leaves that have already been dried and fermented, which is lit for the purpose of inhaling (or merely drawing into the mouth rather than into the lungs) its smoke (see tobacco smoking). ...


Municipalities

  1. Bahía Honda (Bahía Honda)
  2. Candelaria (Candelaria)
  3. Consolación del Sur (Consolación del Sur)
  4. Guane (Guane)
  5. La Palma (La Palma)
  6. Los Palacios (Los Palacios)
  7. Mantua (Mantua)
  8. Minas de Matahambre (Minas de Matahambre)
  9. Pinar del Río (Pinar del Río)
  10. San Cristóbal (San Cristóbal)
  11. Sandino (Sandino)
  12. San Juan y Martínez (San Juan y Martínez)
  13. San Luis (San Luis)
  14. Viñales (Viñales)




 

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