Cienfuegos

Cienfuegos, capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about 250 km from Havana and has a population of 150,000. The metropolis is dubbed La Perla del Sur. Cienfuegos literally interprets to "a hundred fires" cien which means "a hundred", fuegos that means "fires". The area in which the metropolis lies changed into diagnosed as Cacicazgo de Jagua by using early Spanish conquistadors. It changed into firstly settled by means of Taino indigenous humans. Cacicazgo translates from the Taino language as "chiefdom". Cacicazgo de Jagua was consequently the chiefdom of Chief Jagua.

The metropolis changed into later settled by means of French immigrants from Bordeaux and Louisiana led by using Don Louis de Clouet on April 22, 1819. The settlers named the town Fernandina de Jagua in honor of King Ferdinand VII of Spain and Chief Jagua. The settlement successively became a town in 1829, renamed for Jose Cienfuegos, Captain General of Cuba, and a city in 1880.