Mariel

Mariel is a town and bay on the north coast of Cuba approximately 40 kilometres west of the city of Havana. On the east side of the bay are a port, cement works and a power station. On the west side of the bay is a former submarine base, now designated as a free trade zone.

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In 1980, some 120,000 Cubans left Mariel and went to the United States; they are referred to as "Marielitos".

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Ernest Hemingway named his daughter Mariel after the town.

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Cuba: The Republic of Cuba consists of the island of Cuba (the largest of the Greater Antilles), the Isle of Youth and various adjacent small islands. The name of the island is derived from the Taino word "cubanac?n", meaning a central place. It is located in the northern Caribbean at the confluence of t...

Havana: :This article is about the Cuban city. For other places named Havana, please see Havana (disambiguation)...

Free trade zone: A free trade zone (FTZ) or export processing zone is one or more areas of a country where tariffs and quotas are eliminated and bureaucratic requirements are lowered in order to attract companies by raising the incentives for doing business there....

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Mariel Hemingway