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Australia, Cuba
Australia is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Jagüey Grande, Matanzas Province. It has an estimated population of 8,850.[1] HistoryThe village, founded in 1862, is in a sugar growing area and "dominated by the old, out-of-service sugar factory's chimney, with "Australia" written prominently down its length."[2] The village is named after the factory, the Central Australia, which like others in the area were named after continents.[citation needed] The village was the first sugar town in Cuba to stop using slave labour,[3] and served as Fidel Castro's base of operations during the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.[2] GeographyLocated 2 km south of Jagüey Grande, Australia lies next to Zapata Swamp (Ciénaga de Zapata). It is served by the A1 motorway (linking Havana to Santa Clara) at the exit of Jagüey.[4] See alsoReferences
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