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PINAR DEL RIO

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 616 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PINAR DEL RIO  ,

capital of Pinar del Rio Province, Cuba, about Io7 m . S.W. by railway from Havana . Pop . (1907), 10,634 . The city is in the fertile valley of the Guama . It is the centre of the
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tobacco industry of the Vuelta Abajo region . Its
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port is La Coloma, on the
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southern coast . The
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pueblo was created after 1773; but the
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history of the settlement goes back to 1J71, and the parochial church
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dates from 1710 .

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