Limonar

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| settlement_type = Municipality

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| image_skyline = Calle real de limonar.jpg

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| image_caption = Main street and town's church

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| map_caption = Limonar municipality (red) within
Matanzas Province (yellow) and Cuba

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Cuba

| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Matanzas

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| leader_title = President

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Lester Baró Escalona

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| established_title = Founded

| established_date = 1876

| established_title2 = Established

| established_date2 = 1976

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| area_total_km2 = 449

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| population_as_of = 2022

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| population_total = 26,708

| population_density_km2 = auto

| timezone = EST

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| coordinates = {{coord|22|57|22|N|81|24|31|W|region:CU|display=inline,title}}

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| area_code = +53-52

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Limonar is a municipality and town in the Matanzas Province of Cuba.

Overview

The municipality is divided into the barrios of Canímar, Guamacaro, Caoba, Sumidero, Coliseo, and San Miguel.

Established in 1876 as Guamacaro, the name was changed to Limonar in the 1950s, when it achieved municipality status.{{Cite web|url=http://www.atenas.inf.cu/todo/Municipios/MunicipioLimonar.htm |title=Limonar |author=Municipalities in Matanzas |access-date=2007-10-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041216212512/http://www.atenas.inf.cu/todo/Municipios/MunicipioLimonar.htm |archive-date=December 16, 2004 }} Limonar is the hometown of jumper Javier Sotomayor; jumper Marino Drake; fine art painter Aimeé García Marrero;{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9T0VAQAAIAAJ |title=Cuarto Salón de Arte Cubano Contemporáneo: La Habana |date=2005 |publisher=Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales |pages=31 |language=es |trans-title=8 Havana Biennial: Art With Life}} as well as professional baseball player Silvio García.

Demographics

In 2022, the municipality of Limonar had a population of 26,708.{{Cite web |title=Cuba: Administrative Division (Provinces and Municipalities) - Population Statistics, Charts and Map |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/cuba/admin/ |access-date=2024-02-03 |website=www.citypopulation.de}} With a total area of {{convert|449|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}},{{Cite web|url=http://www.statoids.com/ycu.html|title=Municipios of Cuba|author=Statoids|date=July 2003| access-date=2007-10-07}} it has a population density of {{convert|56.6|/km2|/sqmi|abbr=on}}.