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Camagüey
Camagüey is the capital city of the province with the same name. Located 570 km east of Havana, Cuba’s third largest city, it’s full of restored plazas and buildings, which gained it the condition National Monument and more recently a World Heritage Site. It was one of the seven villages founded by Diego Velázquez in 1514. The city prospered from cattle raising and sugar that fostered the slave-plantation economy in the region. Camaguey is known for its many beautiful plazas and churches. Due to the lack of fresh water, Camagüeyans used large clay jars called tinajones collect rainfall, which gave the city the nickname of “City of the Tinajones”.
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