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About Cuba Go to Cuba plus learn about its geography, history, politics, legal system, population, language and religion, education, health, and culture. About to leave for Cuba on an EduToursToCuba.com trip? Check out the climate GEOGRAPHY Cuba is the largest, most varied and most beautiful of the Greater Antilles islands. It is long and narrow, extending approximately 1,260 km east-west in length; its width ranges from 193 km to 32 km. No point in the Island is more than 80 km from the sea. Cuba's territory, or the Cuban Archipelago, includes the Island of Youth (Isla de la Juventud) and several coastal islets and cays; it covers a land area of 110,861 km2. Cuba, often called the "Pearl of the Antilles," has a subtropical trade wind climate, adequate rainfall, significant mineral resources, and vast areas of level fertile land suitable for mechanized farming. To the south of Matanzas is Cienaga de Zapata, known for its marshy lowlands where crocodiles are commercially raised. Also in this province is Varadero, known for its beaches of fine white sand, clear and transparent waters and comfortable resorts. Santiago de Cuba, also rich in tradition and architectural treasures, is located on the south coast at the island's eastern end. The rugged topography of the Sierra Maestra, with elevations of up to 1,980 m above sea level, is unique in the island and famous for its sceneries of breath-taking beauty and unbelievable variety.

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Links To Internet Sites About Cuba 1) Maps of Cuba a) Map of Havana: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/car/graphics/map-hav.htm 2) Media Sites In Cuba a) Granma Online: Cuba's national newspaper: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/index.html 3) Sites About Healthcare In Cuba a) Cuban Healthcare from the Cuban Ministry of Health: http://www.sld.cu/instituciones/dne/countryprofilehtm.htm b) The following is a Cuban healthcare database: http://www.infomed.sld.cu/ 4) Sites About Cuban Culture a) A great site about Cuban Culture: http://www.cubanculture.com/ b) Caribe.Com's Dictionary of Afro-Carribean Deities: http://www.cmcc.muse.digital.ca/membrs/traditio/tervuren/tera01e.html c) A National Cuban Search Engine with choice of Spanish or English language: http://www.cubaweb.cu/ d) Photos and brief bios of 1,000 Cuban artists from all areas of Cuban culture, composers, painters, dancers: http://www.scultoregalleria.fr/cubasi/ e) Links to articles discussing various aspects of Cuban culture: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/index-f.html f) How to do business in Cuba. Includes brief explanations of Cuban geography, climate, history, population and culture: http://www.travel-net.com/~blochfd/brief.html

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Home Welcome Who we are Become a partner Specialized Tours for Groups Architecture Fine Arts Ballet Religion Scuba Diving Incentives The Best of Cuba Tourist Services Flights to Cuba Hotels Car Rental Packages NEW! Resources Cuba Info Cuba Links NEW! Cuba Maps NEW! Geography History Population Culture Religion Travel Cuban Geography (page 1 of 2) The Bahamas are very near, toward the Northwest of the eastern end of Cuba. To see Map of Cuba click here Cuba is an archipelago consisting of the main island, the Isle of Youth and about 4,195 keys and islets. Its elongated and narrow shape allows circulation of trade winds from the Atlantic, which cool its tropical, humid climate. Only one fourth of the land is mountainous being its main systems: The Guaniguanico mountain range at the West region; the

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Home Welcome Who we are Become a partner Specialized Tours for Groups Architecture Fine Arts Ballet Religion Scuba Diving Incentives The Best of Cuba Tourist Services Flights to Cuba Hotels Car Rental Packages NEW! Resources Cuba Info Cuba Links NEW! Geography History Population Culture Religion Travel Cuban Geography (page 2 of 2) Cuba has an important range of mineral resources: nickel and cobalt are found at the Mayari-Nicaro and the Moa-Baracoa regions; kaolin, quartz and marble quality and assortment: red, pink, black, grey, green, white) are found on the Isle of Youth and the Matanzas province. Among the main timber-yielding species are Pinus caribea, Cuban mahogany, cedar, red mangrove and Santa Maria tree. More than 85% of forests offer new wood and timber-yielding trees are relatively large. Fishing reserves are mostly crustaceans as shrimps and lobsters. Coral reefs are very well preserved and have an extension of 45 000 square km around the archipelago. Some of the small islands with beautiful and unpolluted beaches and landscapes are moderately exploited for tourism.

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Geography Cuba’s main island is the 15 th largest island in the world, measuring 104,945 sq. km. It is 1250 km long and 191 km wide at its widest point. Climate There are no great variations in seasonal temperature in Cuba, its pleasant subtropical climate being augmented by the gentle north-easterly tradewinds. Between May and October is the wet summer season, and the drier winter season runs from November through April. The average temperature reaches 27.4 degrees Celsius in July and August and 22.2 degrees Celsius in February. An average of 80% humidity exists all year round, with things just a little more sticky in the wet season. Flora and Fauna There are more than 6,000 plant species in Cuba, around half of which are original to the terrain. The ever-present royal palm is represented on the country’s coat of arms; there are said to be 20 million palms in Cuba. Cuba’s other flora includes:

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GEOGRAPHY Cuba is an archipelago of two main islands, Cuba and Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth), and about 1,600 keys and islets. The island lies at 21 30 N, 80 00 W. The total area of 42,803 square miles (110,860 square kilometers) is nearly as large as Pennsylvania. Cuba lies approximately 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of the United States. The island of Cuba has about 2,335 miles of coastline with some 280 beaches. Over half of Cuba is made up of fertile flatlands, low hills, and valleys where cattle are grazed and sugarcane, coffee and tobacco are grown. The Oriental, Central and Occidental mountain ranges cover 25% of the country, and divide the country into three distinct ranges; west, center, and east . The highest peak, Pico Turquino, rises to 8,320 feet in the east. Cuba's longest river is the 343km Río Cauto, although it's barely navigable, even for small boats. Tropical forests in the east contrast with central prairies and western hills and valleys, where the royal palm is the dominant tree. The North American and Caribbean tectonic plates meet in the 7200m deep Cayman Trench between Jamaica and Cuba, and the region is thus prone to earthquakes.

8. Dr. Mark M. Miller - USM Dept. Of Geography Miller, Mark, Tim Hudson, and Joseph Scarpaci. 1996. cuban geography in Higher http://www-dept.usm.edu/~ghy/faculty/miller.html

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CUBAN GEOGRAPHY The area of Cuba is about 44,218 square miles or 114,524 square km. Most of Cuba consists of plateaus, valleys, and gently rolling hills. Cuba has lots of small rivers, but the only important river is the Cauto. animals people culture fun facts ... home

11. Department Of Geography Miller, Mark, Tim Hudson, and Joseph Scarpaci. 1996. cuban geography in Higher EducationSurvival in the Special Time . Journal of Geography 95(2) 5965. http://www-dept.usm.edu/~ghy/miller.htm

Interested in physical geography? As a comprehensive university, USM has strong programs in biological sciences, geology, and marine and coastal sciences. Mark M. Miller, Ph.D. Home Introduction People Mark M. Miller, Ph.D. Mark M. Miller, Ph.D. Departments of Geography and Economic Development Department of Geography University of Southern Mississippi Southern Station Box 5051 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5051 Telephone:601-266-4729 Fax: 601-266-6219 Representative Publications Miller, Mark, Tim Hudson, and Joseph Scarpaci. 1996. Cuban Geography in Higher

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Interested in military geography? USM has a military science department, and includes Keesler Air Force base as one of its campuses. We are also conducting a Joint Land Use Study with the U.S. Army's Fort Shelby. Dr. Tim Hudson Home Introduction People Dr. Tim Hudson Dr. Tim Hudson Dean of the College of International and Continuing Education Professor of Geography Department of Geography University of Southern Mississippi Southern Station Box 5051 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5051

13. CUBANS-Introduction The purpose of this fact sheet is to give those working with the most recently arrivedCubans a brief refresher on cuban geography and history, particularly http://www.culturalorientation.net/cubans/INTR.htm

culturalorientation.net -home CUBANS THEIR HISTORY AND CULTURE REFUGEE FACT SHEET NO.12 PAGE CHAPTER C ONTENTS P REFACE I NTRODUCTION L AND CONOMY P ... IBLIOGRAPHY Introduction When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1990, its economic support for Cuba also dissolved, and the economy of Cuba very quickly began to suffer the consequences. The Cuban government's various responses to those consequences have caused a new wave of immigration from Cuba, and American service providers are finding themselves once again with large numbers of Cubans needing language training and social services. At the same time, there is greater communication between the two countries, leading some to speculate that normalization of relations may take place. Others continue to maintain, however, that no such eventuality will take place while Castro is still in power. The purpose of this fact sheet is to give those working with the most recently arrived Cubans a brief refresher on Cuban geography and history, particularly the history of Cuba's relations with the United States. The fact sheet brings readers up-to-date on events in Cuba that have resulted in the recent flows of Cubans to Florida. It discusses values the newcomers are likely to have brought with them and the repercussions these values might have for their resettlement in the United States. The fact sheet concludes with a brief sketch of Cuban Spanish and lists some of the linguistic problems that Cubans are likely to encounter in their learning of English.

14. Johns Hopkins Gazette January 29, 1996 conference. ReVelle said he was pleased to hear about the rigorous sciencecourses that must be taken by cuban geography majors. Such http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/janmar96/jan2996/29cuba.html

Go back to Previous Page Go to Gazette Homepage Cubans Talk Here About Environment Phil Sneiderman - Homewood News and Information Environmental experts from Hopkins and the University of Havana last week explored issues affecting both nations, including pollution in the seas that separate the two nations. The two-day workshop opened Thursday at Evergreen House. Scholars from both schools talked about how each institution is training the next generation of scientists. They also explained how each nation is trying to update laws that protect the environment, while grappling with complaints that such laws stall economic growth. During Thursday's session, the scholars talked about ways the two nations, separated by a trade embargo and a language barrier, can work together to reduce toxic dumping in the seas south of Florida. Blanca Morejon, who teaches demographics at the University of Havana, said environmental problems do not stop at one nation's border. "We swim in the same waters," she said. "The air, especially in the southern United States, is shared between the two countries." Morejon, who is also a deputy in Cuba's National Assembly, had arrived in the United States earlier in the week with six colleagues from the university and two representatives of the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment. Prior to the conference, the visitors toured Washington, D.C., the National Aquarium in Baltimore and Hopkins' Homewood campus. About 20 faculty members from Hopkins and other Baltimore area campuses opened the conference by describing their environmental research. To overcome the language barrier, two interpreters provided immediate Spanish and English translations, which were transmitted into earphones worn by all participants. After introducing themselves, the Cuban professors described the tough standards they set for students, despite shortages of textbooks and paper. Hopkins faculty members offered to help by providing surplus textbooks to their Cuban counterparts. Grateful for the offer, the visitors from Havana said they also hoped the conference would give them a chance to enlighten professors at Hopkins about recent political and educational developments in Cuba. "It's been useful, both socially and scientifically," Morejon said during a break in the meeting. "Outside of Cuba there is a lot of misinformation about the type of social transformation that is happening in Cuba, and about the quality of professionals there. There are many difficulties, and we lack many things, but those who graduate from our university are true professionals." The University of Havana may have limited resources, but its faculty members had plenty of valuable information to share, said Charles ReVelle, a professor in the Hopkins Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, who helped organize the conference. ReVelle said he was pleased to hear about the rigorous science courses that must be taken by Cuban geography majors. Such science requirements are tougher than those at some U.S. universities, ReVelle said, and Cubans must study for five years to earn the equivalent of a bachelor's degree. ReVelle said he expected to learn a lot from his meetings with the Cubans. "We can learn about their educational system, about their environmental research and ideas, and about their natural resources," he said. "We can learn about their accomplishments and their needs and how we can be of assistance." Academically, the environmental conference broke fresh ground, but the ties between Hopkins and the University of Havana are nearly two decades old. The conference was set up through the Johns Hopkins Cuba Exchange Program, launched in 1978 by Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies and the University of Havana. The program allows scholars to lecture and conduct research at one another's institutions. It also arranges conferences that bring together scholars and public figures from both nations to discuss issues of mutual interest. In addition, the program has offered courses on Cuba and U.S-Cuban relations at Homewood and SAIS. The first group of SAIS students who visited Cuba in 1979 met with Wayne S. Smith, who was then chief of mission at the United States Interests Section in Havana. After leaving the Foreign Service, Smith became director of the Cuba Exchange Program in 1985 and is now also a professor in the Latin American Studies Program. Since 1993, when the program relocated to Homewood from SAIS, it has expanded into areas such as medicine, public health, protection of the environment, literature, sociology and history. Smith, who proposed the conference and brought the Cubans to the United States, has lobbied publicly for improved relations between the two countries, criticizing the continuing U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba. The academic exchange program, he said, is a step toward easing tension between the two nations. "We try to emphasize the kind of things that should be pulling the two societies together," he said. Antonio Pozas Ramos, an international relations professor at the University of Havana, said he was anxious to find common ground with faculty members from Hopkins. "We hope to exchange opinions and ideas with our colleagues here," he said, "and to improve teaching and learning about the environment at the two universities." Go back to Previous Page Go to Gazette Homepage

15. Summer Study Program In Havana, Cuba The primary focus of these two courses is cuban geography, history,culture, and society. Students will also explore the historical http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/gzapata/Cubaprogram.htm

Summer Study Program in Havana, Cuba The program This program will be led by Professor Gabriela C. Zapata. Professor Zapata is the Director of Spanish Basic Language Instruction in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Professor Zapata is a native of Argentina. She specializes in foreign language, content-based instruction and has many years of experience in the area of foreign language teaching and learning. She has developed, supervised, and taught numerous Latin American culture-based courses. Professor Zapata will be accompanied by Mr. Antonio Reyes-Rodr’guez, a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Mr. Reyes-Rodr’guez is a native of Spain, where he has taught in several study-abroad programs for American students. He has also participated in programs in Peru, and he has spent time in Cuba. The classes Two classes will be offered during the program: SPANISH 140: The Cuban World SPANISH 220: Cuban Culture, Society, and Language in Context Spanish 140 Spanish 140 is a fourth-semester language course designed for students who have completed the equivalent of three semesters of Spanish at the University level, e.g., Spanish 101 and 102 or 122 and 103 at the University of Illinois.

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What is the Cuban civic opposition? Who we are Contact Us Español Today, in spite of the dictatorship, of the repression and of the harassment that the Cuban people has suffered in the last 4 decades, it exists hope in Cuba. Gradually it has been created, organized and expanded a series of organizations that are independentof the State, that are in the process of reconquering the social space that corresponds to them. These organizations, representative of a wide range of political and social trends within the Island, seek that is observed their right to exist. This means their rights to express, to gather to be associated and allowed to develop themselves according with the Universal Statement of the Human Laws, signed by Cuba in 1948. Also, in the last decade, the Cuban citizen has begun a process at individual level, of making concience, which has allowedto himto transcend the relationship of dependency that joins to him to the government and to recognize himself as protagonist of the change in the society. It is in this opposer movement and in this informed Cuban where lives the seed of the civic challenge, the one which consists of the claim of the citizen rights through the civic and non violent resistance .

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with Sigfredo Ariel ( December of 2001 ) SIFREDO ARIEL Poet, journalist and Cuban music producer. Son del Son C oncerning popular music, leyends are useful. They have something missing in academic studies and in scienlitic analysis: clarity and synthesis. Cuban son leyends began in the intricate zones of East Province's mountains, by the middle of XIX century; but its origin and first steps are not clear. Old son musicians assured that son was a simple repetition of short refrains with inserted phrases called "inspirations'"; in othur cases, four, six or more graciously neglectcd rhymed verses. The old fashioned son music orchestra had a tres guitar and a percussion instrument such as the tumbadera and bongó. Valera Miranda family sang, in many stages all over Ihe world, some of the primitive songs like " ', considered one of the oldest songs. It is an endless "montuno son" that can be as long as eternity, just like Oramas Faustino's son "El Guayabero"; his scamped cuartets in repetition spaces like the most known and unalterable refrains: "A mí me gusta que baile Mariela" or "Cuidado con el perro que muerde callado".

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Summary Brief The Development of Cuba's Tourism Identity Tony L. Henthorne University of Southern Mississippi Cuba is facing an identity crisis of such. It is in the enviable position of being able to start with a "blank sheet" and define its tourism identity as it likes. However, with this degree ofpositioning latitude comes many challenges and potential pitfalls. This essay seeks to outline and frame the range of conflicts that the country must endeavor to address and mediate in the years ahead and to offer some alternative positioning strategies open to Cuban tourism planners, in an effort to create a successful and sustainable development industry. Introduction Tourism development, even in the best of situations, presents a thick mix of conflicts, contradictions, negotiations, and decision making demands. These may include disputes over land use, historic and environmental preservation, distributions of costs and benefits, tourist vs. local interests, among many others. In many - perhaps most - instances of tourism development, these conflicts can be readily and happily resolved, with "win-win" solutions found. In other cases, the conflicts involved may be much thornier (for example, the development of the Jalousie Resort on St. Lucia. Issues may lead to heated confrontations, in some cases dramatically thwarting or retarding development. In other cases, the quality, character, efficiency, and effectiveness of tourism development may depend on the ability of interested parties to resolve inherent conflicts.

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Political Prisoners of the Empire MIAMI 5 TEXT Only NewsletterGi Granma International English Edition NEWS NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL SPORTS ... SUSCRIPTION TO THE PRINTED EDITION 52 issues per year N A T I O N A L Havana. December 30, 2002 Island to have 100% electricity for the population —BY LILLIAM RIERA— Granma International staff writer ACCORDING to Alfredo Curbelo from the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment (CITMA) the Cuban government is proposed to bring electricity to 100% of island homes, of which 80-100,000, or 6%, have no power source. Curbelo, head of CITMA’s prioritized program, stated that while two billion persons in the world lack access to electricity services, on the island 86-87% of the population receive it via the national grid and close to 10% via diesel plants, mini-hydroelectric stations and combined generation in sugarcane complexes. Solar panels are used for powering small economic and social installations in remote areas, which would be very costly to connect to the national supply.

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