La Coloma is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Pinar del Río, in Pinar del Río Province. In 2011 it had a population of about 7,000.
History
The settlement, founded in 1607 and used by the Spanish Empire as a shipyard, due to its natural harbor, was known as Partido San Rosendo until April 30, 1840, when it took the current name.[citation needed] Originally part of the municipality of San Luis,[1] La Coloma passed under the adjacent administration of Pinar del Río in 1977, following the Cuban administrative reform. Prior to that, in the early 1900s, Spaniards began immigrating to Cuba, with some, mostly Galicians, settling in La Coloma. In the 1930s, during the Great Depression, the village suffered from extreme poverty. Later, at the height of the Cuban Revolution, La Coloma served as a strategic location of the 26th of July Movement and was used to smuggle in weapons to aid in the fight against Fulgencio Batista, as well as other acts of sabotage to weaken the efforts of rural guards. This culminated in the takeover and occupation of its Military Naval Port by village residents on January 1, 1959. Today, La Coloma’s main economic driver is the industrial fishing complex building.
The main economic activity of La Coloma is the fishing industry. The Combinado Pesquero Industrial La Coloma complex, built in 1976, is located by the port.[citation needed]
The administration of the biology station for the National Park Cayos de San Felipe (Nacional Cayos de San Felipe) is also in La Coloma.[3]
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