Nuevitas is a municipality and port

Port

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 city in the Camagüey Province

Camagüey Province

Camagüey is the largest of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Camagüey. Other towns include Florida and Nuevitas.-Geography:Camagüey is mostly low lying, with no major hills or mountain ranges passing through the province...

 of Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

. The large bay was sighted by Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

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 in 1492. Founded in 1775, the city was moved to its present site in 1828.

Geography

Nuevitas is located on the Guincho peninsula on the north coast. Nuevitas is sheltered by a huge harbor

Harbor

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, has two auxiliary ports, and is a major shipping point for Cuban sugar

Sugar

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 as well as other products from the surrounding agricultural region. It also possesses diversified light industry and serves as a road and rail terminus.

The municipality is divided into the barrio

Barrio

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s of Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Alvaro Reinoso, Lugareño, Redención, San Miguel and Senado.

Nuevitas is not a very large city but it is one of Cuba's most important towns because of its commercial and industrial activities. Nuevitas is located not very far southwest of Playa Santa Lucia which is a very famous place for tourists in Cuba. Cayo Sabinal

Cayo Sabinal

Cayo Sabinal is a cay on the northern coast of Cuba, in the province of Camagüey. Has an area of 335 km².It is the southrnmost island of the Jardines del Rey archipelago, and is located north of the Bay of Nuevitas , east of Cayo Guajaba and the Bay of la Gloria and borders the Atlantic Ocean to...

 is located immediately north. The only waterway that separates Santa Lucia from Ensenada Playa Bonita is the canal of Nuevitas which connects the Bahia de Nuevitas to the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

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Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of Nuevitas had a population of 44,882. With a total area of 415 km² (160.2 sq mi), it has a population density of 108.1 /km2.

Sister City

Nuevitas is officially a sister city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (  Milwaukee, United States

United States

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) - making it the first sister city in Cuba to be linked with a city in the United States.