Cruces
Cruces is a municipality and town in Cienfuegos Province, Cuba. It is the home of the Mal Tiempo National Park which commemorates a battle in the 1895 War of Independence.
- Type: Town with 19,100 residents
- Description: town in Cienfuegos Province, Cuba
- Also known as: “Cruces, Cuba”, “Crues”, and “Las Cruces”
Cruces
- Categories: city, municipality of Cuba, and locality
- Location: Lajas, Cienfuegos Province, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
22.34295° or 22° 20′ 35″ north
Longitude
-80.27279° or 80° 16′ 22″ west
Population
19,100
Elevation
98 metres (322 feet)
Open location code
76JX8PVG+5V
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Cruces” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cruces”
- Catalan: “Cruces”
- Cebuano: “Municipio de Cruces”
- Chinese: “克魯塞斯”
- Chinese: “克鲁塞斯”
- Dutch: “Cruces”
- French: “Cruces”
- Georgian: “კრუსესი”
- German: “Cruces”
- Irish: “Cruces”
- Italian: “Cruces”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cruces”
- Persian: “کراکیز”
- Portuguese: “Cruces”
- Russian: “Крусес”
- Scots: “Cruces, Cuba”
- Scots: “Cruces”
- Spanish: “Cruces”
- Swedish: “Municipio de Cruces”
- Uzbek: “Cruces”
- Vietnamese: “Cruces”
- Welsh: “Cruces”
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Places to explore: Juanón and Barrio las Cotorras.
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Highlights: Parque José Martí and Biblioteca Municipal Raúl Aparicio Nogales.
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