San Luis is a town and municipality in the Santiago de Cuba Province

Santiago de Cuba Province

Santiago de Cuba Province is the second most populated province in the island of Cuba. The largest city Santiago de Cuba is the main administrative center...

 of Cuba

Cuba

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. It is located 19 km (11.8 mi) north of Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba

Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city of Cuba and capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province in the south-eastern area of the island, some south-east of the Cuban capital of Havana....

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History

The city was founded in 1827 on the location of a ranch. Arrival of the railroad accelerated its development
San Luis achieved municipality status on 19 August 1898.

Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of San Luis had a population of 88,496. With a total area of 498 km² (192.3 sq mi), it has a population density of 177.7 /km2.

The municipality is divided into the barrio

Barrio

Barrio is a Spanish word meaning district or neighborhood.-Usage:In its formal usage in English, barrios are generally considered cohesive places, sharing, for example, a church and traditions such as feast days...

s of Dos Caminos, La Luz, Majaguabo, Monte Dos Leguas, Norte and Sur.

Economy

• It is a railroad junction
• Agriculture: processing and trading of sugarcane
  Sugarcane
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  , coffee
  Coffee
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  , fruit, coffee
  Coffee
  Coffee is a brewed beverage with a dark,init brooo acidic flavor prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, colloquially called coffee beans. The beans are found in coffee cherries, which grow on trees cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily in equatorial Latin America, Southeast Asia,...
  
   roasting
• Stock raising
• Mining
  Mining
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  : manganese deposits
• Industry: sugar mills Rafael Reyes (NNE) and Paquito Rosales (NE) are located nearby

Personalities

• Antonio Maceo y Grajales - Liberation Army General (The Bronze Titan)
• Ibrahim Ferrer
  Ibrahim Ferrer
  Ibrahim Ferrer was a popular Afro-Cuban singer and musician in Cuba. He performed with many musical groups including the Conjunto Sorpresa, Orquesta Chepin-Choven and Afro-Cuban All Stars...
  
   - Son
  Son (music)
  The Son cubano is a style of music that originated in Cuba and gained worldwide popularity in the 1930s. Son combines the structure and elements of Spanish canción and the Spanish guitar with African rhythms and percussion instruments of Bantu and Arará origin...
  
   Singer
• Félix B. Caignet - Writer - El derecho de nacer
• Augusto Rivero Más - Architect
• Pedro Meurice Estíu - Archbishop, Santiago de Cuba
• Luis Garzón Masabó - Artist
• Cándido Fabré
  Cándido Fabré
  Cándido Fabré is a Cuban musician, song writer, and singer, famous for his art of improvisation.-Songwriting:...
  
   - Songwriter and Singer
• Justo Salas Arzuaga - First Afro-Cuban Mayor of City of Santiago de Cuba 1940-1945/First Afro-Cuban Governor of Oriente,Cuba 1956)