Cardenas

Cárdenas, a city in Cuba's Matanzas Province east of Havana, is where the Cuban flag was first raised and where Havana Club rum began production in 1934. The city retains a grid of straight, narrow streets still travelled by horse-drawn carriages, and is associated with blue crabs — locally called "cangrejos" — a detail that has earned it an informal culinary identity. It sits close to the coast and within reach of mountain terrain.

• Population98,515
• Nearest water from center1.1 km
• Nearest mountain from center7.4 km