Santa Fe La Fe | |
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 Locator map of Santa Fe (in black) within Isla de la Juventud | |
  Location of Santa Fe in Cuba | |
| Coordinates: 21°44′40.9″N82°45′26.1″W / 21.744694°N 82.757250°W | |
| Country |  Cuba |
| Province | Isla de la Juventud |
| Municipality | Isla de la Juventud (seat: Nueva Gerona) |
| Founded | ? |
| Elevation | 20 m (70 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
Santa Fe, also named La Fe, [1] is the second largest town on Isla de la Juventud of Cuba.
The town is located 20 km south of Nueva Gerona, the island's seat and main town. It was the first settlement on the island, built around mineral springs. Santa fe is linked with Nueva Gerona with a 15 km-long expressway.
Administratively, Cuba is divided into 15 provinces and one special municipality. The current structure has been in place since August 2010, when the then-La Habana Province was divided into Artemisa Province and Mayabeque Province.
Isla de la Juventud is the second-largest Cuban island and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies. The island was called the Isle of Pines until 1978. It has an area 2,200 km2 (850 sq mi) and is 50 km (31 mi) south of the island of Cuba, across the Gulf of Batabanó. The island lies almost directly south of Havana and Pinar del Río and is a Special Municipality, not part of any province and is therefore administered directly by the central government of Cuba. The island has only one municipality, also named Isla de la Juventud.
Yoel García Luis is a Cuban triple jumper who he won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, equalling his personal best with 17.47. His first Olympics was the one of 1996, where he finished 20th in the qualification round.
Nueva Gerona is a Cuban city, capital of the Isla de la Juventud special municipality and province. As of 2012, its population was 59,049.
Piratas de Isla de la Juventud, or simply Piratas de la Isla is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. Based in Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, the Piratas reached the Finals of the 54th Cuban National Series, remaining as runners-up.
Estadio Cristóbal Labra opened in 1957 as Municipal Stadium, in Nueva Gerona on the Isla de la Juventud. With 5,000 seats, it is the smallest in the Cuban National Series and was the only stadium without lights.
Michel Enríquez Tamayo is a retired Cuban baseball third baseman.
Juan Carlos Moreno Pérez is a shortstop with Isla de la Juventud and the Cuba national baseball team.
Neisser S. Bent Vázquez is a former international backstroke swimmer from Cuba, who swam at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics. At the '96 Games, he won the bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke, just behind fellow countryman Rodolfo Falcón. These are the only Olympic medals that Cuba has ever won in swimming.
Batabanó is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1688.
José Lázaro Vázquez Xene is a Cuban artist specializing in ceramics and drawing.
Isla de La Juventud is a Cuban football team playing in the Cuban National Football League and representing Isla de la Juventud Municipality. They play their home games at El Rodeo in Nueva Gerona.
The 1917 Nueva Gerona hurricane was the most intense tropical cyclone to strike the Florida Panhandle until Hurricane Opal in 1995. The eighth tropical cyclone and fourth tropical storm of the season, this system was identified as a tropical storm east of the Lesser Antilles on September 20. After crossing the Lesser Antilles, the system entered the Caribbean Sea and achieved hurricane intensity on September 21. After becoming a Category 2 hurricane, the storm struck the northern coast of Jamaica on September 23. Early on September 25, the cyclone reached Category 4 status and attained maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h) soon thereafter. Later that day, the hurricane made landfall in eastern Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. The system entered the Gulf of Mexico shortly thereafter and weakened slightly. Recurving to the northeast, the hurricane briefly threatened Louisiana before turning toward Florida. Early on September 29, the hurricane made landfall near Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with winds of 115 mph (185 km/h). Once over land, the cyclone rapidly weakened and transitioned into an extratropical cyclone before dissipating on September 30.
Rafael Cabrera Mustelier Airport or Rafael Cabrera Airport is an airport serving Nueva Gerona, the capital city of the Isla de la Juventud special municipality in Cuba.
The 2010–11 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol de Cuba was the 100th season of the highest division of Cuban football, and the first season under its present format.
Surgidero de Batabanó, also shortened as Surgidero, is a Cuban village and consejo popular of the municipality of Batabanó, in Mayabeque Province. In 2011 it had a population of about 6,000.
The road network of Cuba consists of 60,858 km (37,815 mi) of roads, of which over 29,850 km (18,550 mi) are paved and 31,038 km (19,286 mi) are unpaved. The Caribbean country counts also 654 km (406 mi) of motorways (autopistas).
La Demajagua is a Cuban village and consejo popular of the special municipality and province of Isla de la Juventud. It is the third most populated place of the island.
The Autopista de la Isla de la Juventud, also known as Autopista Gerona-La Fe, is a Cuban motorway linking Nueva Gerona to Santa Fe, the principal settlements of the Isla de la Juventud. It is a toll-free road and, with a length of 15 km (9.3 mi), is the shortest Cuban motorway.
Anolis paternus the ashy bush anole or Nueva Gerona anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found on Isla de la Juventud in Cuba.
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