Introduction
Located on the southern coast of Cuba on the Caribbean Sea, 250 km east from Havana and known as "The Pearl of the South", this area embraces one of the most beautiful bays, Jagua a former site of Indian settlements and stalking grounds for pirates and corsairs. Cienfuegos, one of the chief seaports of Cuba, is a center of the sugar trade also coffee and tobacco. Near the entrance to the Bahia de Cienfuegos is Castillo de Jagua, a fortress erected in the 1740s for protection against Caribbean pirates.
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