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Encyclopedia Britannica



MANZANILLO

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 626 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MANZANILLO , an important commercial city of Cuba, in Santiago province, on the gulf of Guacanabo, about 17 M. S. of the mouth of the Rio Cauto, on the shore of Manzanillo Bay. Pop. (1907), 15,819. It is shut off to the
east
  and
south
  by the Sierra Maestra. Besides the Cauto, the rivers Yara and Buey are near the city. Manzanillo is the only
coast
  town of importance between Trinidad and Santiago. It exports large quantities of
sugar
 , hides, tobacco, and bees-wax; also some
cedar
  and
mahogany
 . The history of the
settlement
  begins in 1784,
but the port was already important at that time for a
trade
  in woods and fruits; French and English corsairs resorted thither for ship-building woods. The
settlement
  was sacked by the French in 1792, and in the following year a fort was built for its
protection
 . In 1833 it received an ayuntamiento (council) and in 1837, for its " loyalty " in not following the lead of Santiago in proclaiming the Spanish Constitution, received from the crown the title of Fiel. In 1827 the port was opened to commerce, national and foreign.


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