HAVANA PROVINCE
Most tourists zip nonstop along the Via Blanca highway between the city of Havana and Varadero Beach. A few resorts exist at Playa Jibacoa on the way, but most travelers cross the Puente Bacunayagua into Matanzas Province without delay. Other take the autopista (divided highway) to Pinar del Rio, and they too usually don't realize they've crossed another province.
The Province of Havana doesn't include the city of Havana. Instead it's a broad stretch of rolling or flat countryside largely covered by sugarcane which is used to feed the country's largest rum factory at Santa Cruz del Norte. In the west, Mariel is best remembered for the 135,000 economic migrants who passed through the city's port northbound in April 1980.
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