Trinidad, Cuba

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Central square in Trinidad, Cuba
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Map of Trinidad, Cuba

Trinidad, pop. 71,776 (1998), is a town in the province of Sancti Spíritus, central Cuba. It is one of UNESCOs World Heritage sites since 1988.

Trinidad was founded in 1514 by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar under the name Villa De la Santísima Trinidad. Its one of the best preserved cities in the Caribbean from the time when the sugar trade was the main industry in the region. Nowadays, its main industry is tobacco processing.

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