REVIEW OF CUBA

Official Name : Republic of Cuba. Capital: City of Havana, with around 2 200 000 of inhabitants, located in the northwest coast of the island in front of the Strait of the Florida.


Official language: Spanish, it is spoken English quite widespreadly and in smaller measure French and Italian.

Geographical localization: Cuba is located in the entrance of the Gulf of Mexico, in the middle of Caribbean Sea, among the parallel ones 20 and 23 grades north latitude and the meridians 74 and 85 grades longitude west.

Poblation: The total population belongs approximately to 11 200 000 inhabitants, with 101 inhabitant's population's density for km² (261 inhabitant for mi²). the population's 75% resides in urban areas and only the 25% in rural areas.

The Cuban population is formed basically for descending of Spaniards and African and for the mixture of both racial groups, the presence of descending of Chinese and other European immigrants as French, Poles and other.

Climate: The climate of Cuba is subtropical humid, with two clearly defined stations, the dry one (winter) of November to April, and the rainy one (summer) of May to October. The temperature annual average is of 25°C, the stocking in winter is of 20°C and that of summer is of 26-27°C. During the winter season it is frequent the entrance of cold fronts with inferior minimum temperatures sometimes at the 10°C. The minimum temperatures vary between 1°C and 8.5 °C in the domestic occident and enter 3°C and 12.5°C in the oriental part; the registered maximum temperatures are among 36°C 38°C.

The rains have an annual average of 1 200 mm (48 inches) with around 30% of the precipitations in the winter period and the remaining 70% in the summer and in general they are but abundant in the domestic occident that in the east.

Culture and music: The Cuban culture has been prodigal in personalities in all the cultural goods and given to the world so much musical manifestations as the they are - precursor of the so popular sauce - and the chachachá like writers and poets of José's size María Heredia, José Martí, Guillermo Goatherd Infante, Reinaldo Arenas, Sweet María Loynaz, I Move away Carpentier, José Lezama Lima, Nicolás Guillén or Eliseo Diego, or painters of grateful international fame as Wilfredo Lam, René Portocarrero or Tomás Valdés, or exponents of the dance like the National Ballet of Cuba.

The Cuban popular rhythms those but diffused they are the son , the danzon, the chachacha, the mambo, the current sauce that is a derivation of the they are. Also, making Gallic of the universality of the Cuban culture, a Cuban jazz also exists, as well as a hip hop and rap cubanos,con roots in the jazz of United States and the reggae of Jamaica and with a towering international level.