Matanzas
Matanzas is in Western Cuba. It is the closest town to Varadero resort. It is a nice small town and there are amazingly few tourists considering that it is basically next to Varadero.Photo: Emmanuel Huybrechts, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Qyd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Sauto Theater
Theatre building
Photo: Panther, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Sauto Theater opened in 1863 in Matanzas, Cuba, and has since then been a proud symbol of the city.
Victoria de Girón Stadium
Stadium
The Estadio Victoria de Girón is a multi-use stadium in Matanzas, Cuba.
Matanzas
- Type: City with 140,000 residents
- Description: capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas
- Categories: municipality of Cuba, big city and locality
- Location: Matanzas Province, Western Cuba, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.0469° or 23° 2' 49" northLongitude
-81.5783° or 81° 34' 42" westPopulation
140,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)IATA airport codes
QMA and VROUnited Nations Location Code
CU QMAOpen Location Code
76MW2CWC+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 259846344OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3547398Wikidata ID
Q272471Matanzas Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Matanzas
- Arabic: ماتانزاس
- Armenian: Մատանսաս
- Asturian: Matanzas
- Basque: Matanzas
- Belarusian: Матансас
- Bengali: ম্যাটানজাস
- Breton: Matanzas
- Catalan: Matanzas
- Cebuano: Matanzas
- Chinese: Matanzas
- Chinese: 馬坦薩斯
- Chinese: 马坦萨斯
- Czech: Matanzas
- Danish: Matanzas
- Dutch: Matanzas
- Egyptian Arabic: ماتانزاس
- English: Matanza
- Erzya: Матансас
- Esperanto: Matanzas
- Estonian: Matanzas
- Finnish: Matanzas
- French: Matanzas
- Georgian: მატანსასი
- German: Matanzas
- Greek: Ματάνσας
- Gujarati: મટંઝસ
- Haitian: Matanzas, Kiba
- Haitian: Matanzas
- Hebrew: מטאנזאס
- Hebrew: מטאנסס
- Hindi: मटानज़ास
- Hungarian: Matanzas
- Indonesian: Matanzas
- Irish: Matanzas
- Italian: Matanzas
- Japanese: マタンサス
- Kannada: ಮಾಟಾಂಜಾಸ್
- Korean: 마탄사스
- Latvian: Matansasa
- Lithuanian: Matansasas
- Luxembourgish: Matanzas
- Macedonian: Матансас
- Malay: Matanzas
- Maltese: Matanzas
- Marathi: मटनाझ
- Min Nan Chinese: Matanzas
- Norwegian: Matanzas
- Norwegian Bokmål: Matanzas
- Persian: ماتانزاس
- Persian: ماتانساس
- Polish: Matanzas
- Portuguese: Matanzas
- Portuguese: Matanças
- Quechua: Matanzas
- Romanian: Matanzas
- Russian: Матанзас
- Russian: Матансас
- Scots: Matanzas
- Serbian: Matanzas
- Serbian: Матанзас
- Silesian: Matanzas
- Sinhala: මටන්සාස්
- Slovenian: Matanzas
- Spanish (Historic): San Carlos y San Severino de Matanzas
- Spanish: Matanzas
- Swedish: Matanzas
- Swedish: Municipio de Matanzas
- Tamil: மாடான்சாஸ்
- Tatar: Матансас
- Telugu: మటాంజస్
- Thai: มาตันซัส
- Turkish: Matanzas
- Ukrainian: Матанзас
- Ukrainian: Матансас
- Urdu: ماتانساس
- Uzbek: Matansas
- Venetian: Matanzas
- Vietnamese: Matanzas
- Volapük: Matanzas
- Waray (Philippines): Matanzas
- Welsh: Matanzas
- Western Frisian: Matanzas
Other Places Named Matanzas
Localities in the Area
- Matanzas EsteSuburb
- Pueblo NuevoSuburb
- SimpsonNeighbourhood
- VersallesSuburb
- Matanzas OesteSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Matanzas. Photo: Emmanuel Huybrechts, CC BY 2.0.