Cienfuegos

Cienfuegos, a port of Cuba, on the south coast, on the Bahía de Jagua, 140 miles ESE. of Havana, with which, as with all the north-west of the island, it has railway communication. Some 250 vessels, of about 210,000 tons, annually clear the port, and the exports have in some years a value of above £1,000,000, being chiefly sugar, molasses, rum, and wax. Pop. 35,556.