Cuba Review and Cuba Vacation Information
The Republic of Cuba, population 11,346,670 est.2005. (the largest of the Greater Antilles), the Isle of Youth and various adjacent small islands. Its name is said to be derived from the Taíno word meaning "a central place." At least as early as colonial times it's name was given to areas near Santiago de Cuba. Island is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean - south of the eastern United States, and the Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti, and east of Mexico. The Cayman Islands and Jamaica are south of eastern part.First visit by Europeans was when explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall here for the first time on October 28, 1492.
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