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SAN ANTONIO DE LOS BANOS
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Page 127
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See also: town in See also: Havana Province, See also: Cuba, about 23 M
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(by See also: rail) S.W. of Havana
.
Pop
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(1907) 9125
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See also: San Antonio de los Banos is served by the W.branch of the See also: United See also: Railways of Havana
.
It is on the See also: banks of the Ariguanabo See also: river, which drains a lake of the same name, and is itself one of the many " disappearing See also: rivers " of the See also: island; it disappears in a cave near San Antonio
.
The town has See also: mineral springs and See also: baths, and is a summer resort of the See also: people of Havana
.
Though spreading over hills, the See also: plan of the town is See also: regular
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The See also: tobacco of the Vuelta Abajo lands immediately around the city is famous
.
The See also: pueblo arose in the See also: middle of the 18th century as a See also: camp for convicts from Mexico
.
It became a See also: villa in 1794
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Early in the 19th century refugees from Santo Domingo settled here and founded See also: coffee estates that gave the place See also: great prosperity until the expulsion of the French in 1809; subsequently the cultivation of tobacco renewed its prosperity
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