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REMEDIOS, or SAN JUAN DE LOS REMEDIOS

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 81 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REMEDIOS, or See also:SAN JUAN DE LOS REMEDIOS  , See also:town of See also:Santa See also:Clara See also:province, See also:Cuba, in the See also:municipality of See also:San Juan de Los See also:Remedios . Pop. of the town (1907), 6988; of the municipality, 21,573 . The town is served by a See also:branch of the Cuban Central railway, extending from Caibarien to Camajuani, where it connects with the See also:main See also:line . The site is See also:low and See also:flat, and unhealthily wet in the See also:rainy See also:season . The See also:port of Remedios is Caibarien '(pop. in 1907, 8333), on the N. See also:coast, about 5 M . E . Both are in the See also:sugar See also:country, and sugar is the See also:base of their economic interests . The first See also:settlement on the site of the See also:present town was made in 1515-16, and in 1545 Remedios was created a See also:villa with an See also:ayuntamiento (See also:council) .

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