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The Green Belts of Cuba
Harding, Timothy F. | August 19, 1968 issue

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This article focuses on the Havana green belt project in Havana, Cuba. A belt around the capital is being converted into a vast forest of millions of productive trees. This was formerly an area of mostly open, under-utilized land, left in scrub or unimproved pasture. At a forced march pace, climatological, soil, hydrographic and land use studies were made and a master plan was drawn up for the Cordón. Eighty reservoirs are being constructed to provide water for irrigation and recreation throughout the Cordón. The Cordón is not an isolated effort but the first experimental stage of what will become a series of belts stretching from one end of the island to the other.

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GREENBELTS; OPEN spaces; AGRICULTURE; TREE planting; LAND use; HAVANA (Cuba); CUBA
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