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Cienfuegos

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Cienfuegos , city (1995 est. pop. 125,000), capital of Cienfuegos prov., central Cuba, a port on the Caribbean Sea. It is the marketing and processing center of a region producing sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, and rice; it also has an oil refinery, rum distilleries, fish canneries. The city is Cuba's leading sugar exporting port as well as a major fishing port. Founded in 1819 by French emigrants from Louisiana and named for one of the original founders, Cienfuegos was destroyed by a tropical storm in 1825 and later rebuilt.

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Cienfuegos

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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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