Place:Colón, Matanzas, Cuba

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NameColón
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates22.717°N 80.9°W
Located inMatanzas, Cuba
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Colón is a municipality and city in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. The municipality has an area of 547 km and a population of about 71,000. The city proper, with a population of about 44,000, is the third-largest one of its province.

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The town was founded in 1836[1] under the name 'Nueva Bermeja'. The railroad, arrived nearby the town still in 1843, reached it in 1851. In 1852, Fernando Diago, the owner of the sugar-mill Ponina, inaugurated the first public school in town. In 1859, it achieved the status of villa (town) with the name Colón, after Christopher Columbus (Cristóbal Colón in Spanish). The founder's name is don Martín José Zozaya, who founded the town in the former hacienda named La Bermeja. The deed to establish this town was signed in the city of Matanzas in 1836. At the time, don Martín set apart land for a cemetery and a church.

Until the 1977 administrative reform, the municipality was divided into the campos of Agüica, Este, Guareiras, Jacán, Laguna Grande, Oeste and Palmillas.

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