Surgidero de Batabanó Lighthouse is a
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
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lighthouse
A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.
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located in
Surgidero de Batabanó
Surgidero de Batabanó, also shortened as Surgidero, is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Batabanó, in Mayabeque Province. In 2011 it had a population of about 6,000.
History
The vi ...
, a village and the port of
Batabanó,
Mayabeque Province
Mayabeque Province is one of two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Artemisa Province. The new provinces came in to existence on J ...
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See also
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List of lighthouses in Cuba
References
Lighthouses in Cuba
Buildings and structures in Mayabeque Province
Lighthouses completed in 1847
19th-century architecture in Cuba
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