Talk:Villa Clara Province

Discrepency....
According to this page in the last paragraph:

"The provinces of Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, and Villa Clara were once all part of the now defunct province of Las Villas. Santa Clara was the capital of Las Villas."

But according to the pages on Cienfuegos and Sancti Spiritus proviences:

"The provinces of Cienfuegos, Sancti Spíritus, and Villa Clara were once all part of the now defunct province of Santa Clara."

Which is it???

142.68.169.180 02:56, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Both, see Santa Clara Province. --Qyd 03:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)


 * I see your problem, as Qyd short answer goes: is both, but I'd like to elaborate a little bit more about this so this issue can be solved and the article therefore upgraded. Since the birth of the Santa Clara city (1685) in the center on the province, the name has shifted several times from Santa Clara to Villaclara (sometimes Villaclara altogether, and some times Villa Clara) as you can see the name came first with the city, but soon after the entire region was called the same. At the beginning (among other funny names) the city and the region around finally was named Santa Clara, by 1865 the name Las Villas (Which literally means "The Cities") was used by the Spanish to described the group of nearby cities cities of Remedios, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Trinidad and Camaguey, But ironically around Santa Clara though the named shifted to VillaClara when this happened. In 1878 the Queen of Spain decides to break the region into more manageable departments (No provinces! the three current provinces came in 1976), when these departments were establish the munipality around now Villaclara city took back the original name of Santa Clara again, and the entire 6 departments were called Las Villas. And finally in 1976 Las Villas was split into 3 provinces (Cienfuegos, Villa Clara and Sancti Spiritus). I hope this is more clarifying. --Lezumbalaberenjena (talk) 12:45, 17 September 2008 (UTC)User:Lezumbalaberenjena

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Geography section
A lot of that geortgraphy section reads like an advertising brochure not an encyclopedia.

Coould it be taken from another source.

I note "The Cays are a capricious cluster of some 500 islands" and the folllowing paragraphs appear here - https://www.cubatechtravel.com/knowing_cuba/details/en/2266/Cayo-Sotavento-Key-Villa-Clara-Cuba for example.

-- Beardo (talk) 18:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC)