Portal:Cuba

Wikipedia portals: Culture Geography Health History Mathematics Natural sciences People Philosophy Religion Society Technology edit   The Cuba Portal Shortcut: P:CUBA Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba (Spanish: Cuba or República de Cuba, IPA: [reˈpuβlika ðe ˈkuβa]), consists of the island of Cuba (the largest of the Greater Antilles), the Isle of Youth and adjacent small islands. Cuba is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Cuba is south of the eastern United States and the Bahamas, west of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Haiti and east of Mexico. The Cayman Islands and Jamaica are to the south. Cuba is the most populous country in the Caribbean. Its culture and customs draw from several sources including the aboriginal Taíno and Ciboney peoples, the period of Spanish colonialism, the introduction of African slaves, years of close ties to the Soviet Union, and its proximity to the United States. The island has a tropical climate that is moderated by the surrounding waters; the warm currents of the Caribbean Sea and its location between water bodies also make Cuba prone to frequent hurricanes. More about Cuba... Contents: Selected article | News | Selected picture | Selected biography | Did you know | Things you can do | Quotes Categories | Featured content | Wikiprojects | Topics | Related portals | Associated Wikimedia Show new selections edit   Selected article The Plaza Mayor in Trinidad, Cuba, is the historic centre of the town, declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1988. The buildings surrounding the central square date from the 18th and 19th centuries when trade in sugar from the nearby Valle de los Ingenios and slaves, brought great riches to the area. Many of the buildings surrounding the central square belonged to the wealthy landowners of the city. When the trade in sugar diminished and the slave trade ended in the mid-19th century, Trinidad became a backwater and because little building work was carried until the 1950s many of the historic buildings and streets were preserved, especially the grand constructions in the immediate vicinity of the Plaza Mayor. Today, most of the houses surrounding the square are home to museums. The colonial houses of Trinidad are typified by red terracotta tiled roofs supported out beyond the walls by wooden beams. Pastel-coloured paintwork for the houses is normal with wood and plasterwork details picked out in different colours to the brickwork. ...Archive • Nominate Read more... edit   Selected picture Credit: DirkvdM Schoolchildren in a sunlit arcade in Havana. ...Archive • Nominate Read more... edit   Did you know... ...that the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana (pictured) played host to Winston Churchill, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Hemingway, Ava Gardner as well as prominent members of the American mafia? ...that the Cauto River is the longest river in Cuba at 213 miles? ...that Arsenio Rodríguez, a Cuban musician and top band leader who developed the son montuno in the 1920s, was blind for most of his life having been kicked by a horse as a child? ...that Baconao, a large park region, located about 20 kilometers away from the city of Santiago de Cuba, was declared a World Heritage Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO? ...that Cubana de Aviación's Tropicana Special flights, which began in 1956, ferried club customers from Miami to the Tropicana Club in Havana and returned them to Florida at 4am the following morning? 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Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Cuba: Task list New article announcements Requests: Cuban Liberation Army, Carlos Alzugarai, Jules Loustalot, Enrique Quintana, Moisés Boudé, Domingo Romeo Jaime, Oscar Poey Bonachea, Virgilio Morales Díaz, José Borrel Tudurí, Celina Cardoso, Angel Loustalot, Cementerio de Santa Ifigenia Stubs: Dollar store (Cuba), Celia Sánchez, Sport in Cuba, Yoani Sánchez Verify: History of Cuba, Fulgencio Batista Update: Nochebuena NPOV: History of Cuba, Delfín Fernández, Armando Valladares Copyedit: Bay of Pigs Invasion, Julio Antonio Mella, Fabio Grobart, Armando Peraza Merge: Cleanup: Bay of Pigs Invasion, History of Cuba, War Against the Bandits, Abelardo Colomé Ibarra, List of Cubans, Máximo Gómez, Antonio Maceo Grajales Style: Fidel Castro Expand: Cuba – Soviet Union relations, Baseball in Cuba, Religion in Cuba, Havana's International Book Fair, Cuba–Venezuela relations, Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven edit   In the news Wikinews Cuba portal March 13: Cuba releases leading dissident from prison March 13: Cuba sentences USAID worker to fifteen-year prison term March 9: Che Guevara's Motorcycle Diaries companion dies October 15: Tropical Storm Paula weakens to remnant low ...Archive More Current events on Wikinews... edit   Selected biography Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was an influential Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic, and political conditions of the country. ...Archive • Nominate Read more... edit   Quote of the day “ This republic is not a creature of Cubans - it was neither fashioned by them nor by them influenced - but on the contrary it is of all American manufacture. Americans built it. Americans set it up again when it fell flat. American influence is all that sustains it to this moment. If they discover anything to criticise in it, or its failure, let Americans remember in so criticising that they are dealing with the work of their own hands. ” Writer Irene Aloha Wright in 1910, eight years after Cuban independence. 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