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===The Cuban government provides them with food rations and free medical care. Children’s education is the minimum of the 9th grade and from there you can choose if you want to finish high school and college, which is also provided by the government.=== ||
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 * 1. || ==[[image:hola.jpg width="331" height="179"]]== || Hola Amigos! This is Emily, Sarah, and Shahla here. And welcome to the country of Cuba. Spanish is the native language there. During the next few minutes, we will be telling you all about Cuba. ||
 * 2. || [[image:177054p.gif width="454" height="300"]] || ===**Cuba is an island made up of three main mountainous regions. The country itself is a little bit smaller than the state of Pennsylvania. It's landforms are gentle slopes, rolling plains, and large areas farmland.**=== As you can see, Cuba is located in the Caribbean Sea. The capital is Havana. = = ||
 * 3. || [[image:800px-Flag_of_Cuba.svg.png width="458" height="202"]] || The Cuban flag was adopted on May 20, 1902. The flag has five stripes of blue and white and one red triangle on the left side. There is a white star in the triangle. The 3 blue stripes symbolize the 3 original provinces. Liberty is symbolized by the red triangle. And, the red of the triangle is for the blood of Cuban patriots.[[image:http://online.culturegrams.com/world/images/spacer.gif width="274" height="1" caption="external image spacer.gif"]] ||
 * 4. || [[image:1606943-1.jpg width="452" height="286"]] || Cuba is a communist country. The dictator is Fidel Castro(left). The country has been worried about him because he has been sick for the past few months. His brother, Raul Castro(right), had the chance of taking over if anything happened to him. ||
 * 5. || [[image:http://www.theodora.com/wfb/photos/cuba/provincial_government_building_cuba_photo_galen_r_frysinger.jpg width="464" height="303"]] || The Provincial Government building is located in Havana. The Cuban Communist government was founded in 1959. The Cubans inspired this building to look like the United Sates Congress building.
 * 6. || [[image:http://z.about.com/d/coins/1/7/1/3/-/-/Cuba_money_coins.jpg width="494" height="317"]] || The currency in Cuba is an assortment of coins. They call them the Cuban Peso.

The average Cuban makes around 200 pesos or 10 US dollars per month.
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 * 7. || [[image:cuba13.jpg width="370" height="472"]] || ===Cuba is made up of many ethnicities such as Mulatto- 51%, White- 37%, Black- 11%, Chinese- 1%=== The main religions in Cuba are Roman Catholic and Santeria.This is is the biggest Afro-Cuban religion.

=== === === === || ===**Music started getting popular during the 1800's. Some of the earlier instruments are the flutes, maracas, shakers, wooden and conch shell trumpets, and hollow wooden drums. Cuba's music has a mix of European, African, and Spanish style to it.**=== || ===More than 7,000 mammals, reptiles, and insect species live in Cuba. About 4,000 of theses are land, river and sea mollusks. Sponges and crustaceans are found off the southwestern coast. Cuba has more than 500 fish species and many different types of sharks. Freshwater fish are less common in Cuba. There are just as many reptiles as the sea, river, and land species. The marine species include tortoises, hawkbill turtles, and in the marshes are two kinds of rare crocodiles. Some of the land reptiles are the iguana and the majá de Santa María, the largest snake in Cuba, by the way, is not venomous. There are also over 60 types of amphibians, such as frogs and toads in the country.=== ||
 * 8 || [[image:Band.jpg]] || Music is a big part of daily life in Cuba.
 * 9 || [[image:Dancers.jpg width="365" height="279"]] || ===Dancing is also a large part of the Cuban culture. One of the most well known dances is the habanera which started around the 19th century. The tango, rumba, and salsa are also some of the well known dances in Cuba.=== ||
 * 10 || [[image:11_HAVANA.CAR.jpg]] || Other than dancing you will also see another interesting sight if you visit Cuba, vintage cars. These cars are still around from when the United States was able to transport them to Cuba. This is now illegal, but the Cubans are still able to keep them in good condition, which adds to the beauty in Cuba. ||
 * 11 || [[image:2_Cuban_Art.jpg width="332" height="361"]] || There is a lot of very nice art in Cuba. The people who traveled to Europe, in the 1800's, saw the art there and were inspired by it. From then on, art in Cuba has become a mix of European and Spanish culture. This painting was done by San Antonio de los Banos. ||
 * 12 || [[image:http://www.bowlingpages.net/shayna/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/hawkbill-turtle.jpg width="461" height="306"]] || Cuba has some of the most exotic animals in the world. One of them is the Hawksbill turtle. They are very common in the seas around Cuba. Including the Caribbean Sea.
 * 13 || [[image:http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/flamingos.jpg width="311" height="374"]] || ===Around 300 bird species are found on the island. Most of these are flamingos, royal thrushes, and nightingales. The national bird of Cuba tocororo lives in the forest.=== There are many different types of flamingos that live in Cuba. Almost anywhere you go you can see a group of flamingos.

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 * 14 || [[image:http://www.hicuba.com/Image/rio-bayate-small.jpg width="269" height="200"]] || The Rio Cauto is the largest and longest river in Cuba. It stretches out to about 150 miles and is the traveling route for many small boats.This river use to be the transportation route for many boats but they have gotten so large that the boats have now had to find other ways of transportation. ||
 * 15 || [[image:http://www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com/Images/DBImages/1068/1068363w.jpg width="364" height="280"]] || The Rio Cauto flows through south eastern Cuba. There are many water features on the river including this waterfall. ||
 * 16 || [[image:http://www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com/Images/DBImages/1099/1099967w.jpg width="405" height="269"]] || One of the well-known landforms in Cuba is the Trinidad Range. These mountains are located in the city of Trinidad. This picture shows the sun setting in Trinidad. Isn't is beautiful! ||
 * 17 || [[image:http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=61274&rendTypeId=4 width="458" height="301" caption="Pico Turquino"]] || The Pico Turquino is the highest point in Cuba. Pico Turquino stands 6,542 feet high in the Sierra Maestra. The Sierra Maestra is also a well known mountain range in Cuba. ||
 * 18 || [[image:cubacrash.gif]] || One of the most recent events that happened in Cuba was a plane was shot down owned by an anti-Castro group. As you can see, the plane was traveling from Miami to Pinar del Rio, in Cuba, and was shot down somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico. Thanks for listening to our voicethread. We hope you learned a lot! ||