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Puerto Padre
A sugar port with a hilltop fort.
- Population
- 90,218 (2022)
- Founded
- 1541
Then
- 1541
Puerto Padre is established.
- 1851
Its first sugar mill is built.
- 1861
It becomes a city.
- 1981
The Castillo de Salcedo becomes a National Monument.
Now
Sugar built the town's industry.