Isla de la Juventud

Isla de la Juventud
("Isle o Youth") is the seicont-lairgest Cuban island an the seivent-lairgest island in the Wast Indies (efter Cuba itsel, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, an Andros Island). The island wis cried the Isle o Pines (Isla de Pinos) till it wis renamit in 1978. The island haes an aurie  an is 50 km sooth o the island o Cuba, across the Gulf of Batabanó. The island lies amaist directly sooth o Havana an Pinar del Río an is a Special Municipality (2,419 km2), no pairt o ony province. The Isle o Youth is, therefore, admeenistered directly bi the central govrenment o Cuba. 

The lairgest o the 350 islands in the Canarreos Airchipelago (Archipiélago de los Canarreos), the island haes an estimatit population o 100,000. The caipital an lairgest ceety is Nueva Gerona in the north, an the seicont-lairgest an auldest ceety is Santa Fe in the interior. Ither commonties include Columbia, Mac Kinley, Santa Bárbara, Cuchilla Alta, Punta del Este, Sierra de Caballos an Sierra de Casas. 

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