Cities connected to Cuba

The closest American city to Cuba and the northern anchor of the Florida Straits corridor — a Cuban-Bahamian, cigar-making, shipping and military town.

Ybor City became a cigar-manufacturing capital built by Cuban and Spanish workers moving across the Straits.

Transformed by Cuban migration into a center of Latin American commerce, banking and Spanish-language media.

A Gulf port historically tied to Havana through sugar, tobacco and shipping across the Gulf of Mexico corridor.

A major Gulf port and energy hub on the Gulf of Mexico corridor.

An Alabama Gulf port historically within the Gulf trade network reaching Cuba.

Havana's fleet-era partner: New Spain's silver and goods assembled at Havana via Veracruz before the Atlantic crossing.

A Yucatán Gulf port in the western-Cuba–Yucatán geographic corridor.

A historic fortified Gulf port on the Campeche coast within the Gulf corridor.

South of eastern Cuba on the route toward Panama — the 'front door to Panama'.

Bahamian capital between Cuba and Florida on the northern Straits network.

The oldest European city in the Americas, on Hispaniola across the Windward Passage from eastern Cuba.

Capital of Spain's other final Caribbean colony, sharing Cuba's colonial trajectory until 1898.

Western Hispaniola across the Windward Passage from Guantánamo and eastern Cuba.

A fortified fleet-era partner of Havana; northern South American goods assembled at Havana via Cartagena.

A Caribbean-coast Colombian port on the northern South America corridor toward Cuba.

Venezuela's central-coast port on the northern South America corridor.

The Caribbean mouth of the Panama Canal, on Cuba's southern shipping corridor.

The Pacific end of the canal and a regional logistics and finance hub facing Cuba's southern corridor.