Matanzas

Matanzas (San Carlos y San Severino de Matanzas)
Municipality
The ceety an bay o Matanzas wi the Valle de Yumurí in the backgrund.
Eik-name(s):  La Atenas de Cuba Venice o Cuba Ceety o Brigs
Matanzas Location o Matanzas in Cuba
Coordinates: 23°03′4″N 81°34′31″W / 23.05111°N 81.57528°W / 23.05111; -81.57528
Kintra	Cuba
Province	Matanzas
Settled	1572
Foondit	1693[1]
Established	1695
Area [2]
• Total	317 km2 (122 sq mi)
Elevation	20 m (70 ft)
Population  (2004)[3]
• Total	143,706
• Density	453.3/km2 (1,174/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
Area code(s)	+53-52

Matanzas is the caipital o the Cuban province o Matanzas. It is famit for its poets, cultur, an Afro-Cuban fowklore.

It is locatit on the northren shore o the island o Cuba, on the Bay o Matanzas (Spaingie: Bahia de Matanzas), 90 kilometre (56 mi) east o the caipital Havana an 32 kilometre (20 mi) wast o the resort toun o Varadero.

Matanzas is cried the "Ceety o Brigs," o which thare are seiventeen crossin the three rivers that traverse the ceety (Rio Yumuri, San Juan, an Canimar). For this raison it wis referred tae as the "Venice o Cuba." It wis cried "La Atenas de Cuba" ("The Athens o Cuba") for its poets.

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