San Antonio de los Baños

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official_name = San Antonio de los Baños
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subdivision_name1 = La Habana
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established_title = Founded
established_date = 1802
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established_date2 = 1879 (Municipality)
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population_total = 46300
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latd= 22|latm= 53|lats= 20|latNS=N
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footnotes = San Antonio de los Baños is a municipality and city in the La Habana Province of Cuba.

It is located 26 km from the city of Havana, near the Ariguanabo River. [cite web | url=http://www.cubavacationstravel.com/La_Havana_Cuba.php | title=Places to visit in Havana | accessdate=2006-06-19] It was founded in 1802.

Water is supplied to the town via a 100-year old aqueduct. In 2003, the town had no running water for two days while the aqueduct was being repaired. [cite news | url=http://www.cubanet.org/CNews/y04/mar04/26e2.htm | title=Water service interrupted in San Antonio de Los Baños | publisher=CubaNet News | accessdate=2006-06-19 | date=26 March 2003] There are 39 schools in the town, employing over 600 teachers. These schools include an academy of plastic arts, a school for training art teachers, and the International School of Film and Television Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión which was established in 1986. The town's library was founded in 1975, and has a collection of more than 32,000 books.cite journal | url=http://www.worlib.org/vol13no1-2/corvo_v13n1-2.shtml | title=World Libraries: Reading Initiatives: A Major Effort by the Libraries of the San Antonio de los Baños Community, Havana Province | accessdate=2006-06-19 | journal=World Libraries | author=Maricela Corvo de Armas | coauthors=Jane Carpenter | year=2003 | month=Spring-Fall | volume=13 | id=ISSN|1092-7441]

There is an Air Force Base (AFB) of the same name near the town. It was built during World War II by the Americans, [cite web | url=http://www.scramble.nl/cu.htm | title=Cuban Air Force | publisher=Scramble | accessdate=2006-06-19] who called it "The Cayuga" and used it as a base for the B-24 Liberator planes patrolling the Caribbean. After the war, it was handed over to the Cuban government and used by the Cuban Air Force. In a 1962 briefing paper on the Cuban Missile Crisis prepared by officials at the United States Department of Defense, the base was identified as "the headquarters for the Cuban revolutionary Air Force and the assembly point for all MIGs, except the MIG-21, which [had] previously been received in Cuba." [cite web | url=http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cuba001.htm | title=The Avalon Project: The Cuban Missile Crisis | accessdate=2006-06-19]

Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of San Antonio de los Baños had a population of 46,300.Cite web| 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=2007-10-07 Es icon] With a total area of km2 to mi2|127|abbr=yes|wiki=yes,Cite web|url=http://www.statoids.com/ycu.html|title=Municipios of Cuba|author=Statoids| year=2003| month=July| accessdate=2007-10-07 ] it has a population density of Pop density km2 to mi2|364.6|abbr=yes.

The municipality is divided into the barrios of Número Uno, Número Dos, Número Tres, Número Cuatro, Ceiba del Agua, Norte, Sur and Vereda Nueva.Cite web|url=http://www.guije.com/pueblo/municipios/hsanantoniob/index.htm|title=San Antonio de los Baños|author=Guije.com|accessdate=2007-10-07 Es icon]

ee also

*Municipalities of Cuba
*List of cities in Cuba

References

External links

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/CU/11/San_Antonio_de_los_Banos.html Information about San Antonio de Los Baños]
* [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/cuba/af-base.htm Map showing AFBs in Cuba]

Geographic Location (8-way)
Centre = San Antonio de los Baños
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