Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios
World Heritage Site
- Official name
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Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios |
UNESCO
- Country
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Cuba |
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- Continent
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North America
- Location
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Province of Sancti Spiritus
21.8030° Lat, -79.9844° Lon |
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- Code
- 460
- Time Zone
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America/Havana (CST, -0500)
- Current Time
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- Category
- Cultural
- Description
- Inscribed 1988. Founded in the early 16th century in honour of the Holy Trinity, the city was a bridgehead for the conquest of the American continent. Its 18th- and 19th-century buildings, such as the Palacio Brunet and the Palacio Cantero, were built in its days of prosperity from the sugar trade.
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