Cuba By: DJ Kyles. Geography of Cuba Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea and has a total land area of 110,860 km² It has 3,735 km of coastline.

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1 Cuba By: DJ Kyles

2 Geography of Cuba Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean Sea and has a total land area of 110,860 km² It has 3,735 km of coastline and 29 km of land borders The climate is tropical; moderated by trade winds; dry season (November to April); rainy season (May to October)

3 Facts On Cuba The capital of Cuba is Havana In the early 1800s, Cuba's sugarcane industry boomed, requiring massive numbers of black slaves. An 1899 treaty made Cuba an independent republic under U.S. protection In 1961 a U.S.-backed group of Cuban exiles invaded Cuba. The invasion was given the go-ahead by President John Kennedy Cuba fomented Communist revolutions around the world, especially in Angola, where thousands of Cuban troops were sent in the 1980s.

4 More Facts on Cuba The U.S. established limited diplomatic ties with Cuba on Sept. 1, 1977, making it easier for Cuban Americans to visit the island. Christmas became an official holiday in 1997 for the first time since the revolution. In March and April 2003, Castro sent nearly 80 dissidents to prison with long sentences, prompting an international condemnation of Cuba's harsh crackdown on human rights. Largest country in Caribbean and westernmost island of the Greater Antilles

5 Cuban Religions Two of the main ethnic and cultural trunks of the Cuban nationality are the Spanish and the African ones. The Spanish colonizer imposed its culture, language and religion: Catholicism, but the African slaves also contributed to this process. The expressions of African origin are present in representation systems, symbols, and rituals of a mythological content, linked to nature, ancestors (spirits), and everyday life.

6 Population of Cuba In Cuba the Population is 11,394,043 (July 2007 est.) The growth rate in Cuba is 0.273% (2007 est.)

7 Flag and Map of Cuba

8 Easter Traditions in Cuba At 7 pm, some hundreds of people gather at Cathedral Square to follow the Via Crucis procession through the streets of the city. It was after the historic visit to the island by the late Pope John Paul II in 1998 that the Cuban authorities again allowed the celebration of public religious acts that had been banned in the early 1960s.

9 What Cubans Eat The province of Oriente, in eastern Cuba, is well known for its contribution of spicier and more robust dishes In the states, Cubans, too, have opted to choose hot peppers, like blazing scotchbonnets and serranos, to prepare recipes such as black bean salsa.

10 Cuban Food