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Cienfuegos, Cuba Fernandina de Jagua A province and a city developed from a fortress whose construction was begun in 1738 by French colonists. This was destroyed by a hurricane in 1825, but the settlement was rebuilt in 1831 and renamed after Don José Cienfuego, the Spanish captain‐general who ruled the region in 1816–19. His name meant ‘A Hundred Fires’.

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