Jaguey Grande is a municipality in the Matanzas Province

Matanzas Province

Matanzas is one of the provinces of Cuba. Major towns in the province include Cárdenas, Colón, Jovellanos and the capital of the same name, Matanzas...

 of Cuba

Cuba

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. It is located east of the Zapata Peninsula

Zapata Peninsula

Zapata Peninsula is a large peninsula in Matanzas Province, southern Cuba, at . Ciénaga de Zapata National Park is located on the peninsula....

, north of the Bahia de Cochinos

Bay of Pigs

The Bay of Pigs is an inlet of the Gulf of Cazones on the southern coast of Cuba. By 1910, it was included in Santa Clara Province, and then instead to Las Villas Province by 1961, but in 1976, it was re-assigned to Matanzas Province, when the original six provinces of Cuba were re-organized into...

, along the Carretera Central, in the center of the province.

Demographics

In 2007, the municipality of Jagüey Grande had a population of 87,77. url=http://www.atenas.inf.cu/todo/Estadisticas/TABLA%20No_3balance.htm| title=2004 Population trends, by Province and Municipality| author= Atenas.cu| year= 2004| accessdate=2007-12-16 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070927111826/http://www.atenas.inf.cu/todo/Estadisticas/TABLA+No_3balance.htm |archivedate = 2007-09-27}} With a total area of 882 km² (340.5 sq mi), it has a population density of 65.5 /km2.

The municipality is divided into the barrio

Barrio

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s of Arroyo Vuelto, Casiguas, Castilla, Ciudad, Don Martín, Escalera, Paradero de Bainoa, Paradero de Jaruco, San Antonio de Río Blanco and Santa Ana.