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CUBA 



The latest census of Cuba, published December 31, 1887, gives 

 the population as follows :* 



Provinces. 



Area, sq. 

 klras. 



White. 



Colored. 



Total. 



Pr. ct. 



of 



col'd 



race. 



Den- 

 sity- 



Habana 



8,610 

 8,486 

 14,967 

 23,083 

 32,341 

 35,119 



•344,417 

 167,160 

 143,169 

 244,345 

 54.232 

 157,980 



107,511 

 58,731 



116,409 



109,777 

 13,557 



114,399 



451,928 

 225,891 

 259,578 

 354,122 

 67,789 

 272,379 



24 

 26 

 45 

 31 

 20 

 42 



52.49 



Pinar del Rio .... 



Matanzas 



Santa Clara 



Puerto Principe. . 

 Santiago de Cuba. 



26.62 



17.34 



15.34 



2.10 



7.76 



Total 



122,606 



1,111,303 



520,384 



1,631,687 

 Average. 



32 



. 13.31 

 * 



The population of the principal towns has been estimated as 

 follows : 



Towns. 



Popula- . 

 tion. 



Towns. 



Popula- 

 tion. 



f Habana 



1 Guanabacoa. . . . 

 | Regla 



198,720 

 29,790 

 11,280 

 27,000 

 21,770 

 20,400 

 53,680 



f Puerto Principe. 

 Central \ ^"fuegos . . . 



' Santo Espiritu.. 



[Trinidad 



f Santiago 



East . . < Holguin 



( Manzanillo .... 



46,640 

 27.430 

 32,600 



West ] Matanzas 



1 Pinar del Rio. . . . 

 I Colon 



• 27,640 

 71,300 

 34,760 



l_ Cardenas 



23,200 



Few realize the important fact that environment is quite as 

 potent a factor as racial or political conditions in producing the 

 social status, and nowhere is this great principle more plainly 

 exemplified than in the West Indies and tropical mainlands, 

 where adjacent islands present most striking contrasts in the 

 character and conditions of their populations. The Antiguans, 

 Barbadians, Barbudans, Martiniques, Jamaicans, Haitians, and 

 Cubans are socially and racially as distinct from each other as 

 are the inhabitants of the great countries of Europe. Were it not 

 for the facts of history, one would believe that each population 

 was indigenous to its habitat, instead of having been transplanted 

 from the Old World within four centuries. 



Nowhere are these distinctions more apparent than in the four 

 Antilles themselves, especially as seen in the. islands of Cuba, 



* Published in No. 3, vol. XI, of the Revista de Cuba. 



