Cuba is located in the Northern Caribbean and is in the
Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean and the gulf of Mexico. It
is off the cost of Florida in the United States. To its West is
Mexico and to its East is the Turks and Calicos Islands and
Haiti. Below it is Jamaica and the Cayman islands.
Cuba is the most popular country in the Caribbean. Its
culture and its customs are drawn from several different
types of people. The culture comes mostly from the
aboriginal Taino and Ciboney people, the Spanish colonialism
and the African slaves. It is prone to hurricanes because it is
close surrounded by the Caribbean Sea.
The recorded history of Cuba began on October
28,1492. Christopher Columbus saw the islands on his first
voyage and claimed it for Spain. It was being lived in by
Amerindian people known as the Taino and the Ciboney who
came from South America several centuries before
Christopher......
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