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The westernmost province in Cuba... called the green province, is a gift of nature. Tobacco is grown in its extraordinary fertile lands and valleys. This tobacco is used to produce the Habanos or Cuban cigars, the best in the world.
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Cuba has a long-standing football tradition, although the sport has never been as popular there as baseball, and were early participants in World Cup qualifying. Cuba were given a walkover into the 1938 World Cup and reached the second round by beating Romania.
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Although Cuba's nickel deposits are among the largest in the world, extraction is difficult because of the presence of other metals in the nickel ore. Nonetheless. nickel is the country's second most valuable export item (after sugar). Large amounts of copper, chromium, and cobalt are ... mined, as well as lesser quantities of salt, lead, zinc, gold, silver, and petroleum. There are immense iron reserves, but problems of extraction and purification are even greater than with nickel, and iron production is still slight.
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Cuba's greatest export, the political refugee... helps the Cuba boat-building economy in Cuba. Cuban boat-builders are the most ingenious boat-builders in the world, creating boats out of things that should not float, like concrete and old 1950's vehicles, as well as recycled roofing and plastic milk jugs.
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Cuba is unspoiled and un-commercialized, even undeveloped for half a century. Colonial buildings, villages, entire towns are crumbling and decaying, but still there. A natural landscape of the world's finest tobacco farms and vast sugar cane plantations among lush forests of palms and pines, towering cliffs, and swamps and cays.
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