Artemisa Province

Artemisa is a Cuban province, which arose from the division of the province of Havana- country on 1 January 2011. In addition to the municipios ( counties ) of the western part of this province Artemisa got three Municipalities of the province of Pinar del Río. Capital is the city of Artemisa.

Artemisa is located in western Cuba. To the west of the province, Pinar del Río, in the north- east it borders the capital, Havana, and on the southeast by the provincial Mayabeque also founded in 2011. The northern boundary is the Florida Street and the southern boundary of the Gulf of Batabanó.

The province has an area of ​​4004.27 km ² and is home to 502 392 inhabitants, which corresponds to a density of 125.5 inhabitants per square kilometer. Artemisa is therefore both the surface and the population produces a relatively small province. The population density is, however, to Havana and Santiago de Cuba is the third highest in the country.

Municipalities

The Artemisa Province consists of 11 municipios, which correspond to the German districts roughly. The municipios Bahía Honda, Candelaria and San Cristóbal belonged until 2010 to the province of Pinar del Río, the other eight to split province of La Habana (Havana- country).

Source: Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas and Instituto de Física Planificación (2010)