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15-725: [REDACTED] Look up pinar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pinar may refer to: Pınar , Turkish feminine given name Píñar , municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain Pinar del Río , a city of Cuba Pinar del Río Province , a province of Cuba Pinar, Albania , village in Tirana County, Albania See also El Pinar (disambiguation) , several localities, mainly in Spain Topics referred to by

30-609: A small village and beach, lies few km west of La Coloma's port. The main economic activity of La Coloma is the fishing industry . The Combinado Pesquero Industrial La Coloma complex, built in 1976, is located by the port. The administration of the biology station for the National Park Cayos de San Felipe ( Nacional Cayos de San Felipe ) is also in La Coloma. La Coloma Airport ( IATA : LCL, ICAO : MULM) lies 17 km north and serves Pinar del Río, replacing

45-408: A total area of 708 km (273 sq mi), it has a population density of 269.1/km (697/sq mi). In December 2022 the municipality reached a population of 191,081. The city is located in a major tobacco -growing area and is a centre of the cigar industry. The main farming animal in this province is the carabao . The local baseball club is Pinar del Río , nicknamed Vegueros , and

60-511: Is a railway station on the line to Havana . The main post-secondary education institution is the University of Pinar del Río . La Coloma La Coloma is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Pinar del Río , in Pinar del Río Province . In 2011 it had a population of about 7,000. The settlement, founded in 1607 and used by

75-646: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Pinar del R%C3%ADo Pinar del Río was one of the last major cities in Cuba founded by the Spanish, on 10 September 1867. The city and province was founded as Nueva Filipinas (New Philippines ) in response to an influx of Asian laborers coming from the Philippine Islands to work on tobacco plantations. Pinar del Río's history begins with two tribes,

90-764: Is the industrial fishing complex building. La Coloma is located on the Gulf of Batabanó , by the Caribbean Coast and the western shore of La Coloma River mouth, in front of Cayos de San Felipe ( fr ) . Among the western Caribbean coast, from Cape San Antonio until Surgidero de Batabanó , in Mayabeque Province , is one of the very few settlements and the largest one. The village lies 24 km south of Pinar del Río , 21 from San Luis , 32 from San Juan y Martínez , 48 from Consolación del Sur , 52 from Viñales and 83 from Sandino . Playa las Canas,

105-571: The Spanish Empire as a shipyard , due to its natural harbor , was known as Partido San Rosendo until April 30, 1840, when it took the current name. Originally part of the municipality of San Luis , La Coloma passed under the adjacent administration of Pinar del Río in 1977, following the Cuban administrative reform. Prior to that, in the early 1900s, Spaniards began immigrating to Cuba, with some, mostly Galicians, settling in La Coloma. In

120-647: The 1930s, during the Great Depression, the village suffered from extreme poverty. Later, at the height of the Cuban Revolution , La Coloma served as a strategic location of the 26th of July Movement and was used to smuggle in weapons to aid in the fight against Fulgencio Batista , as well as other acts of sabotage to weaken the efforts of rural guards. This culminated in the takeover and occupation of its Military Naval Port by village residents on January 1, 1959. Today, La Coloma’s main economic driver

135-652: The Guanahatabey, a group of nomadic people who lived in caves and procured most of their livelihood from the sea. Less advanced than the other indigenous natives who lived on the island, the Guanahatabey were a peaceful and passive race whose culture came about largely independently of the Taíno. another culture that inhabited this area was the Ciboney People, a subgroup of the Taino people who inhabited mostly all of

150-815: The association football one is FC Pinar del Río . Both the clubs have their home ground in the Capitán San Luis Stadium . The Vegueros are the Serie del Caribe 2015 champions. Also Major League Baseball and Hall of Famer for the Minnesota Twins Tony Oliva is from Pinar del Rio. The city is served by the Carretera Central highway and by the A4 motorway . Pinar del Río Airport is abandoned, and La Coloma Airport ( IATA : LCL , ICAO : MULM ) has no scheduled flights. There

165-551: The delicate and well-tended crops were colloquially christened Guajiros , a native word that literally means 'one of us'. By the mid-1800s Europeans were hooked on the fragrant weed, and the region flourished. Sea routes opened up and in 1893 the railways was extended to facilitate the shipping of the perishable product. Pinar del Río is known as "the Mecca of tobacco". The municipality borders San Luis , San Juan y Martínez , Viñales and Consolación del Sur . The villages included in

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180-535: The land of Cuba.The Guanahatabey were extinct by the time of the Spanish arrival in 1492; little firsthand documentation remains of how the archaic Guanahatabey society was structured and organized, although some archeological sites have been found on the Guanahacabibes Peninsula. Post-Columbus, the conquistadors left rugged Pinar del Río largely to its own devices, and the area developed lackadaisically only after Canary Islanders started arriving in

195-456: The late 1500s. These Canarians became the tobacco farmers of the region. It was originally called Nueva Filipina (New Philippines), but the region was renamed Pinar del Río in 1778, supposedly for the pine forests crowded along the Río Guama. Tobacco plantations and cattle ranches quickly sprang up in the rich soil, along with open grazing land that typifies Pinar. Farmers who made a living from

210-451: The municipality are Briones Montoto, Cayo Conuco, La Coloma , La Conchita and Las Ovas. Pinar del Río has a warm tropical climate , more specifically a tropical monsoon climate ( Am ) according to the Köppen climate classification scheme. In the 2002 national census, the following statistics were recorded: In 2004, the municipality of Pinar del Río had a population of 190,532. With

225-406: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Pinar . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pinar&oldid=804523814 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

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