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Western Cuba (Spanish: Occidente de Cuba) is a region of Cuba. It includes the following provinces from west to east: Pinar del Rio province, Isla de la Juventud, Artemisa, Havana province, Mayabeque, and Matanzas province.
Matanzas is one of the provinces of Cuba. Major towns in the province include Cárdenas, Colón, Jovellanos, and the capital of the same name, Matanzas. The resort town of Varadero is also located in this province. Among Cuban provinces, Matanzas is one of the most industrialized, with petroleum wells, refineries, supertanker facilities, and 21 sugar mills to process the harvests of the fields of sugarcane in the province.