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City Research
Havana Cuba
Capital of both Cuba and of Ciudad de la Habana province, it is the largest city and chief port of the West Indies. Havana is one of the oldest cities in the Americas. It is also the political, economic, and cultural center of Cuba. An important hub of air and maritime transportation, the city of Havana is the focal point of Cuban commerce, exporting sugar, tobacco, and fruits and importing mainly foodstuffs, cotton, and machinery and technical equipment.
Havana’s main industries include shipbuilding, assembly plants, rum distilleries, sugar refineries, and factories making the famous Havana cigars. Fortunately for the city, tourism has been greatly revived in the 1990s as Cuba redirected its economic model from central planning toward a mixed economy.
Havana possesses one of the best natural harbors in the Caribbean and has long been strategically and commercially important. ... The original settlement, called San Cristóbal de la Habana, was founded in 1515 by the Spanish explorer Diego de Velázquez on Cubas southern coast but was relocated to the site of present-day Havana in 1519. ...
It became the capital of Cuba in the late 16th cent. In 1762, during the French and Indian Wars, Havana fell to Anglo-American forces, but the following year it was returned to Spain in exchange for the Floridas.
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