Güines
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History
The city was founded in 1737 by the Spanish.[1] Prior to the arrival of the Spanish, what is now Güines was part of a region ruled by the Indian chief Habaguanex.
One of the earliest mentions of the word Güines is in 1598, when Don Diego de Rivera or Ribera was awarded a land grant for Los Güines Corral.
Güines can be considered one of the primary points of Cuba's transformation into a sugar-producing slave society in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. Its demographics radically changed as a result. As the historian Ada Ferrer explains, "people classified as white had accounted for about three-quarters of the population in 1775" but "by the 1820s, they constituted less than 38 percent."[2]
In 1837, a railway was opened from Havana - the first in Cuba and Spain, and one of the earliest in the Americas.
Geography
The municipality is divided into the barrios of Catalina, Norte, Rural Primero, Rural Segundo, Rural Tercero, Rural Cuarto and Sur.[1]
Demographics
In 2022, the municipality of Güines had a population of 65,037.[3] With a total area of Script error: No such module "convert"..[4] It has a population density of Script error: No such module "convert"..
Notable people
- Cristina Ayala (1856–1936), poet
- Julio Moreno (1921–1987), baseball player
- Tata Güines (1930–2008), musician
- Roberto Torres (born 1940), musician
- Enrique Ramos Suárez (born 1930), poet
- Leinier Domínguez (born 1983), chess player
- Alberto Hernández Reyes, landscape painter
See also
References
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