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Trinidad
A sugar-rich colonial town above the port of Casilda.
- Population
- 76,500 (2022)
- Founded
- 1514
- World Heritage
- 1988
Then
- 1514
Diego Velázquez founds the Villa de la Santísima Trinidad.
- 1700s
Sugar mills fill the Valle de los Ingenios, about 70 of them.
- 1988
Trinidad and the valley become a World Heritage Site.
Now
Divers and snorkelers come to Casilda Bay, where the tide station sits.