Jaruco

Jaruco San Juan Bautista de Jaruco
Municipality
Location o Jaruco in Cuba
Coordinates: 23°02′34″N 82°00′34″W / 23.04278°N 82.00944°W / 23.04278; -82.00944
Kintra	Cuba
Province	Mayabeque
Foondit	1762[1]
Established	1931 (Municipality)
Area [2]
• Total	276 km2 (107 sq mi)
Elevation	130 m (430 ft)
Population  (2004)[3]
• Total	25,658
• Density	93.0/km2 (241/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
Area code(s)	+53-47

Jaruco is a municipality an ceety in the Mayabeque Province o Cuba.

The toun wis foondit in 1762 unner the name San Juan Bautista de Jaruco (Ciudad Condal de San Juan Bautista de Jaruco).^[4] "Ajaruco" wis the pre-Columbie Taíno name o the dounset.^[5]

In 1940, the municipality wis dividit intae the barrios o Arroyo Vuelto, Casiguas, Castilla, Ciudad de Jaruco, Don Martín, Escaleras de Jaruco, Bainoa, San Antonio de Río Blanco del Norte an Santa Ana.^[1]

Efter 1959 this aurie wis groupit intae the Regional San José (wi the sma municipalities o Jaruco, San Antonio-Caraballo (umwhile pairt o pre 1959 Aguacate municipality), Bainoa, etc.) Later Jaruco wis the caipital o Regional Bainoa which includit the municipalities o Jaruco, Camilo Cenfuegos, Santa Cruz del Norte, Aguacate y Madruga.

Syne 1976, the Jaruco municipality includes: Jaruco, Caraballo, San Antonio de Rio Blanco del Norte, Bainoa, Casiguas, Vista Alegre, Escaleras de Jaruco (an its bonnie pairk inside the muntains), Castilla y Tumba Cuatro.

In 2009 the Benedictines bein a Roman Catholic congregation stairtit tae erect an awn residence in Jaruco. The project failed in 2010 acause o lack o watter sae that the Benedictines remained in thair provisorial hoose in Havana (2011).

1. ↑ ^{a b} Guije.com. "Jaruco". Retrieved 7 October 2007. (in Spaingie)
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4. ↑ *Ignacio A, Ortiz-Bello. Jaruco, un aporte para su historia 1959
5. ↑ The United Confederation of Taíno People. "Taíno Dictionary" (in Spanish). Archived frae the original on 16 October 2007. Retrieved 18 October 2007.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)