Matanzas
Matanzas is in Western Cuba. It is the closest town to Varadero resort. It is a nice small town and there are amazingly few tourists considering that it is basically next to Varadero.
- City with 144,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1 metre (3 feet)
- …has the IATA airport codes VRO and QMA
- …is also known as “Matanza”
- Description: capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sauto Theater and Victoria de Girón Stadium.
Sauto Theater
Theater building
The Sauto Theater is a neoclassical theater in Matanzas, Cuba.
Matanzas
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Latitude
23.0469° or 23° 2′ 49″ north
Longitude
-81.5783° or 81° 34′ 42″ west
UN/LOCODE
CU QMA
Open location code
76MW2CWC+QM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Frisian—“Matanzas” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ማታንዛስ”
- Arabic: “ماتانزاس”
- Aragonese: “Matanzas”
- Armenian: “Մատանսաս”
- Asturian: “Matanzas”
- Azerbaijani: “Matanzas”
- Basque: “Matanzas”
- Belarusian: “Матансас”
- Bengali: “ম্যাটানজাস”
- Breton: “Matanzas”
- Bulgarian: “Матансас”
- Catalan: “Matanzas”
- Cebuano: “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”
- Hausa: “Matanzas”
- Hebrew: “מטאנזאס”
- Hebrew: “מטאנסס”
- Hindi: “मटानज़ास”
- Hindi: “मातांजास”
- Hungarian: “Matanzas”
- Indonesian: “Matanzas”
- Irish: “Matanzas”
- Italian: “Matanzas”
- Japanese: “マタンサス”
- Javanese: “Matanzas”
- Kannada: “ಮಾಟಾಂಜಾಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Матансас”
- Kirghiz: “Матансас”
- Korean: “마탄사스”
- Latvian: “Matansasa”
- Lithuanian: “Matansasas”
- Luxembourgish: “Matanzas”
- Macedonian: “Матансас”
- Malagasy: “Matanzas”
- Malay: “Matanzas”
- Maltese: “Matanzas”
- Marathi: “मटनाझ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Matanzas”
- Northern Frisian: “Matanzas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Matanzas”
- Norwegian: “Matanzas”
- Oromo: “Matanzas”
- Ossetian: “Матансас”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਤਾਂਜਾਸ”
- Persian: “ماتانزاس”
- Persian: “ماتانساس”
- Polish: “Matanzas”
- Portuguese: “Matanças”
- Portuguese: “Matanzas”
- Pushto: “متانزاس”
- Quechua: “Matanzas”
- Romanian: “Matanzas”
- Russian: “Матанзас”
- Russian: “Матансас”
- Scots: “Matanzas”
- Serbian: “Matanzas”
- Serbian: “Матанзас”
- Silesian: “Matanzas”
- Sinhala: “මටන්සාස්”
- Slovak: “Matanzas”
- Slovenian: “Matanzas”
- Somali: “Matanzas”
- Spanish: “Matanzas”
- Spanish: “San Carlos y San Severino de Matanzas” (historical)
- Swahili: “Matanzas”
- Swedish: “Matanzas”
- Swedish: “Municipio de Matanzas”
- Tajik: “Матансас”
- Tamil: “மாடான்சாஸ்”
- Tatar: “Matanzas”
- Tatar: “Матансас”
- Telugu: “మటాంజస్”
- Thai: “มาตันซัส”
- Tumbuka: “Matanzas”
- Turkish: “Matanzas”
- Ukrainian: “Матанзас”
- Ukrainian: “Матансас”
- Urdu: “ماتانساس”
- Urdu: “متانزاس”
- Uzbek: “Matansas”
- Uzbek: “Matanzas”
- Venetian: “Matanzas”
- Vietnamese: “Matanzas”
- Volapük: “Matanzas”
- Waray (Philippines): “Matanzas”
- Welsh: “Matanzas”
- Western Frisian: “Matanzas”
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