Cuba is the largest island in the west Indies. It is south of Florida and east of Yucatan peninsula. The island of Cuba is about 760 mi. (1225 km.), from Cabo De San Antonio to Cabo Maisi. The total area is about 44,218 mi.(114,524 sq. km).
About !/4 of Cuba is mountains and hills.
The rest is mainly flat or rolling terrain. The mountains are all over Cuba. The main mountain ranges of Cuba are the Sierra De Los Organos, in the west, the Sierra de Trinidad, in the center, and the Sierra Maestra, in the southeast. The soil in Cubas ground is mainly all fertile. One of the extraordinary things about Cuba is that it has a wide variety of limestone caverns. One by the name of Cotilla, near Havana.
There are also several rivers in Cuba. Many of the rivers are small and unnavigable. The main river is the Cauto. Cuba has a number of big, nice harbors. Most of them are almost all the way landlocked. The main climate of Cuba is semitropical, and the mean climate being 77 degrees F(25 degrees C).
The annual rainfall averages about 1320 mm (52 in).
Most all of the rain fall in the wet season, from may to October. The island of Cuba is in a region of occasional violent tropical hurricanes in August, September and October. The land and climate of Cuba are in good favor of the agriculture. Cuba also has significant mineral reserves. The main minerals are: nickel, chrome, copper, iron, and manganese. There are a lot of others that are not as important like: sulfur, cobalt, pyrites, gypsum, asbestos, petroleum, salt, sand, clay and limestone. Cuba has a wide variety of tropical vegetation.
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The eastern portion of the island is heavily forested. Cuba has over 30 types of palm trees. The island has several types of bats and also 300 different types of birds. There are also a few types of reptiles, including the tortoise, Cayman, and a species of boa that can get up to 12 feet in length. There are also more than 700 types of fish and crustaceans that live in Cuban waters. A lot of insects also live in Cuba, one of the most harmful is the Anopheies misquito, bearer of the malaria parasite. Cuba is usually one of the leading sugar producers .
in the late 1980s the annual sugarcane harvest was about 73.7 metric tons. Also they produce about 7 tons of grain sugar. They also are a leader in tobacco production. The Cuban population is made up of three groups. 2/3 of people are white with a Spanish decent. The rest is made up of white and black and mixed people.
More than 70% of the nation is urban. The population was 10,540,000 in 1989. Roman Catholics used to be a huge religion in Cuba but over the years the Catholics have went from 70%-33%. About 50% of the Cubans consider themselves non-religious. The main language of Cuba is Spanish. School is mandatory for children from 6 years of age to 12 years of age in Cuba. Cuba is Governed under a constitution adopted in 1976.
It defines the country as a socialist state in which all power belongs to the working people. The communist party is Cubas only legal political party. The central legislature of Cuba is the National Assembly of peoples power, which is consisted of about 510members who are elected for a five year time period by the countrys municipal assemblies. The National Assembly, which regularly meets twice a year, elects a council of state of about thirty people to carry out its functions when it is not is session. The council of state includes a president, who is the countries head of state; a vice president; and five other vice presidents. The National Assembly also chooses a council of ministers, which is Cubas chief administrative body. The council is headed by the president.
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Cuba is divided into 169 municipalities and 14 provinces. Each municipality has an Assembly composed of delegates elected to terms of two and years. the assemblies choose executive committees, which together form the membership of the provincial assembly(in turn, headed by an executive committee).
At each level the executive committee oversees the day to day demonstrative functions of the assembly. So over all, Cuba has a very good protective government that is quite intricate and complex, but is running well. In the mid 1980s, Cuba had about 34000 km(21000 mi.) of roads.
They also had about 210,000 passenger cars and 164,000 commercial vehicles. They also had trains and ocean going vessels. In the 1980s about 564,200 telephones existed in Cuba. They also had a lot of radios and television sets
