Lajas is a municipality and town in Cienfuegos Province, Cuba, about 35 kilometers west of Santa Clara. Settlement began around 1800 and the town was formally founded on August 29, 1824, when a Canary Islander named it Santa Isabel de las Lajas after his wife, Isabel Castellon; it became an official town in 1854 and a municipality in 1879 under the former Santa Clara Province, and Cuban officials shortened its name to Lajas in 1986. The municipality had 21,187 residents as of 2022 across about 430 square kilometers.
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Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Lajas, Cuba (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 22,602 (2004)
2. Lajas, Cuba (Wikipedia)
Infobox: elevation_m
75
- In Group: Cities of Caribbean (World), Wikipedia; part-of country and UN M49 subregion
View the Source3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 22.25, -80.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 22.25, -80.25
22.25 -80.25 Aw
4. GeoNames: Lajas - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 3553343, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 3553343, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
22.41436 -80.29363 P PPLA2 CU 08 2704 22602 78 America/Havana
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