Small makeshift housing in the Valle de Vinales, with the Mogotes karst mountains, a Unesco world cultural landscape in Pinar del Río Province, west C
Small makeshift housing for tobacco workers and their families in the Valle de Vinales, with the Mogotes karst mountains, a Unesco world cultural landscape in Pinar del Río Province, west Cuba, Cuba. The valley is used for tobacco growing for Cuba’s cigars, and other crops are cultivated which is mostly labour intensive with traditional old agriculture methods, such as using oxen, and pulling a plough. Tobacco is not a native of Cuba but is believed to have arrived from the Latin Americas between 2000 and 3,000 BC. The new plant was called ‘Cohiba’ and retains that name with the Cohiba brand today which is one of Cuba’s chief exports. Cuban cigars are regarded as the very best in the world. Cuba has excellent tobacco-growing conditions and several hundred years of growing experience.
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Location: Valle de Vinales, Pinar del Río Province, Cuba
Photo credit: © richard sowersby / Alamy / Afripics
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