Bejucal
Sign in to saveBejucal is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1713. It is well known as the terminal station of the first railroad built in Cuba and Latin America in 1837. It also hosts one of the most popular and traditional carnival fest in Cuba: "Charangas de Bejucal". Bejucal has also been known as a telecommunications site, hosting broadcasts of several news and media networks. It hosted Soviet nuclear warheads during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bejucal is also believed to host a signals intelligence listening station operated by the People's Liberation Army.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Bejucal
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
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- Ferroc Bejucal2.jpg
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- Bejucal railway station
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- Shield_of_Bejucal.jpg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x90px
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- Bejucal (Cuban municipal map).png
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- Bejucal municipality (red) within Mayabeque Province (yellow) and Cuba
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Cuba
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Mayabeque
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- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1874
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 120
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 28,205
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Bejucal is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1713. It is well known as the terminal station of the first railroad built in Cuba and Latin America in 1837. It also hosts one of the most popular and traditional carnival fest in Cuba: "Charangas de Bejucal". Bejucal has also been known as a telecommunications site, hosting broadcasts of several news and media networks. It hosted Soviet nuclear warheads during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Bejucal is also believed to host a signals intelligence listening station operated by the People's Liberation Army.
==Geography== The municipality borders to the north with Boyeros (a municipal borough of Havana); to the east with San José de las Lajas; to the south with Quivicán; and on the west with San Antonio de los Baños.