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Nuevitas
Sign in to saveNuevitas is a municipality and port town in the Camagüey Province of Cuba. The large bay was sighted by Christopher Columbus and crew during their first voyage of exploration in 1492.
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- Settlement.official_name
- Nuevitas
- Settlement.other_name
- Nuevitas "La Bella"
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- The Cuba review (1907-1931) (20183630753).jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 220px
- Settlement.image_caption
- A photograph of the town overlooking Nuevitas Bay, taken in the early 1900s.
- Settlement.image_shield
- Shield_of_Nuevitas.jpg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x90px
- Settlement.image_map
- Nuevitas (Cuban municipal map).png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Nuevitas municipality (red) within Camagüey Province (yellow) and Cuba
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Cuba
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Camagüey
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1818
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 415
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
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Nuevitas is a municipality and port town in the Camagüey Province of Cuba. The large bay was sighted by Christopher Columbus and crew during their first voyage of exploration in 1492.
==History== Founded in 1775 during the time of the Spanish Empire, the city was moved to its present site in 1828. Before the 1977 national municipal reform, Nuevitas was divided into the barrios of Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Alvaro Reinoso, Lugareño, Redención, San Miguel and Senado.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nuevitas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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