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MANZANILLO

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 626 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANZANILLO , an important commercial See also:

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

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