Santa Cruz del Norte

23.154163888889 - 81.927736111111Koordinaten: 23 ° 9 ' N, 81 ° 56 ' W

Santa Cruz del Norte is a municipality in the Cuban province of Mayabeque. By 2010, the municipality belonged to the defunct province of La Habana. The capital and administrative seat of the Municipalities is the city of Santa Cruz del Norte.

Municipality of Santa Cruz del Norte

In the years 1899-1902 Santa Cruz del Norte was already Municipio, was finally out again in 1933 when the municipality. Major places of municipios are next to the city of Santa Cruz and the places Jibacoa Boca Jaruco. The size of the Municipalities is 131 km ².

City of Santa Cruz del Norte

The city of Santa Cruz del Norte was founded in 1800. Essential for the city's founding was the situation at the mouth of the Santa Cruz River, thereby conditioned the settlement of the fishery, and later the sugar cane plantations and the sugar factory, which today bears the name " Camillo Cienfuegos ". In 1919, the rum distillery " Habana Club" was founded on the eastern bank of the river, which still today marketed different kinds of rum under the name Havana Club.

The city of Santa Cruz del Norte today consists of two parts, the old town of Santa Cruz del Norte and the development area, which lies to the west of the old town. The new neighborhood inhabit today more people than the actual old town. The buildings were of the Microbrigadas - built of local enterprise, thus also live mainly employees of these establishments in the blocks of this area - exempt workers of all qualifications.

Santa Cruz del Norte is one of the industrial suburbs of Havana and was once planned as a model socialist settlement.

Industry

In the municipality of the following major companies are located:

Habana Club Rum Factory - here the white rums and liqueurs of the Havana Club trademark are produced, dark rum, originating mainly from Oriente, and bottled
Kraftwerk " Nueva CTE Habana " - Santa Cruz del Norte - one located on the Via Blance power plant on Masutbasis with an installed capacity of 300 MW of Russian design
Empresa de Petroleo del Este - Oil Heritage Ford engines of the East - the fields are between guanabo and Santa Cruz, also from the Via Blanca visible. In Boca Jaruco are the interim storage facility for its oil.
Camilo Cienfuegos Sugar Factory - Located above Santa Cruz, the surrounding these factory settlement and some new buildings form a part of the city.
Chipboard factory Santa Cruz - Located next to the sugar factory and uses the sugar cane waste, Bagaso, for plate making
Paper and board mill Santa Cruz - compared to the rum factory located work in which also sugar cane residues are processed.
Fisheries - Santa Cruz del Norte, Jibacoa and Boca Jaruco from.

Tourist facilities are located in larger numbers in Jibacoa, a village 5 km east of Santa Cruz.

Municipality in the province of Mayabeque
Location in Cuba

Municipalities of Cuba

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