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

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