Cienfuegos Bay

Cienfuegos Bay is a bay inside the Caribbean Sea located in Cienfuegos Province on the southern coast of Cuba. It has served as a refuge for boats for many years. It has of the maximum crucial ports inside the country, taken into consideration considered one of that's the metropolis of Cienfuegos, the capital of the province. On his 2d voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus visited the bay in 1494. The first permanent settlements happened in 1738. The Jagua Fortress have become erected thru King Philip V of Spain in 1742 to shield the bay from pirates who prowled the Caribbean coast inside the ones days.

They used it as safe haven at landfall, on their way to the metropolis of Cienfuegos. Philip V turned into King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to his abdication in favour of his son Louis on 14 January 1724, and from his reaccession of the throne upon his son's lack of lifestyles on 6 September 1724 to his very very own loss of life on nine July 1746.