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Matanzas Province

Matanzas

Matanzas is in . It is the closest town to resort. It is a nice small town and there are amazingly few tourists considering that it is basically next to Varadero.
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  • Type: City with 140,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas
  • Also known as: “Matanza”
Photo: Qyd, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sauto Theater and Victoria de Girón Stadium.

Theater building
Photo: Panther, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The opened in 1863 in Matanzas, , and has since then been a proud symbol of the city. The U-shaped 775-seat theatre is almost entirely covered with wood-panelling.

Stadium
The Estadio Victoria de Girón is a multi-use in , . It is currently used mostly for baseball games and is the home stadium of Matanzas Cocodrilos. The stadium holds 22,000 and was built in 1977.

Museum
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is a museum.

Matanzas

Latitude
23.0469° or 23° 2′ 49″ north
Longitude
-81.5783° or 81° 34′ 42″ west
Population
140,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport codes
QMA and VRO
United Nations Location Code
CU QMA
Open location code
76MW2CWC+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259846344
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3547398
Wiki­data ID
Q272471
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Matanzas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماتانزاس”
  • Aragonese: “Matanzas”
  • Armenian: “Մատանսաս”
  • Asturian: “Matanzas”
  • Basque: “Matanzas”
  • Belarusian: “Матансас”
  • Bengali: “ম্যাটানজাস”
  • Breton: “Matanzas”
  • Bulgarian: “Матансас”
  • Catalan: “Matanzas”
  • Cebuano: “Matanzas”
  • Chinese: “Matanzas”
  • Chinese: “馬坦薩斯”
  • Chinese: “马坦萨斯”
  • Czech: “Matanzas”
  • Danish: “Matanzas”
  • Dutch: “Matanzas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماتانزاس”
  • Erzya: “Матансас”
  • Esperanto: “Matanzas”
  • Estonian: “Matanzas”
  • Finnish: “Matanzas”
  • French: “Matanzas”
  • Galician: “Matanzas”
  • Georgian: “მატანსასი”
  • German: “Matanzas”
  • Greek: “Ματάνσας”
  • Gujarati: “મટંઝસ”
  • Haitian: “Matanzas, Kiba”
  • Haitian: “Matanzas”
  • Hebrew: “מטאנזאס”
  • Hebrew: “מטאנסס”
  • Hindi: “मटानज़ास”
  • Hungarian: “Matanzas”
  • Indonesian: “Matanzas”
  • Irish: “Matanzas”
  • Italian: “Matanzas”
  • Japanese: “マタンサス”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಟಾಂಜಾಸ್”
  • Korean: “마탄사스”
  • Latvian: “Matansasa”
  • Lithuanian: “Matansasas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Matanzas”
  • Macedonian: “Матансас”
  • Malay: “Matanzas”
  • Maltese: “Matanzas”
  • Marathi: “मटनाझ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Matanzas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Matanzas”
  • Norwegian: “Matanzas”
  • Ossetian: “Матансас”
  • Persian: “ماتانزاس”
  • Persian: “ماتانساس”
  • Polish: “Matanzas”
  • Portuguese: “Matanças”
  • Portuguese: “Matanzas”
  • Quechua: “Matanzas”
  • Romanian: “Matanzas”
  • Russian: “Матанзас”
  • Russian: “Матансас”
  • Scots: “Matanzas”
  • Serbian: “Matanzas”
  • Serbian: “Матанзас”
  • Silesian: “Matanzas”
  • Sinhala: “මටන්සාස්”
  • Slovenian: “Matanzas”
  • Spanish: “Matanzas”
  • Spanish: “San Carlos y San Severino de Matanzas” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Matanzas”
  • Swedish: “Municipio de Matanzas”
  • Tamil: “மாடான்சாஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Матансас”
  • Telugu: “మటాంజస్”
  • Thai: “มาตันซัส”
  • Tumbuka: “Matanzas”
  • Turkish: “Matanzas”
  • Ukrainian: “Матанзас”
  • Ukrainian: “Матансас”
  • Urdu: “ماتانساس”
  • Uzbek: “Matansas”
  • Venetian: “Matanzas”
  • Vietnamese: “Matanzas”
  • Volapük: “Matanzas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Matanzas”
  • Welsh: “Matanzas”
  • Western Frisian: “Matanzas”
  • “Matanzas”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Matanzas”. Photo: Emmanuel Huybrechts, CC BY 2.0.