Vuelta Abajo

[ vwel-tuh uh-bah-hoh; Spanish vwel-tah ah-bah-haw ]

noun

1. a region in western Cuba.

Vuelta Abajo

/ ˈbwelta aˈβaxo /

noun

1. a region of W Cuba: famous for its tobacco

Example Sentences

The portion of the southern plain between the bays of Cort�s and Majana is the most famous portion of the Vuelta Abajo tobacco region.

From Project Gutenberg

Santa Clara,—the description de partido being applied to the leaf not produced in Havana and Pinar del Rio provinces, and sometimes to all produced outside the vuelta abajo.

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The best sites for growing tobacco in Cuba lie to the westward of the capital in what is called the Vuelta abajo, between Rio Hondo and San Juan de Martinez, and is about ten English miles in circumference; the tobacco grown on the Vuelta arriba is usually of inferior quality.

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The Province of Pinar del Rio produces 70 per cent of the whole Cuban crop, and includes the celebrated District of Vuelta Abajo in which the finest cigar tobacco in the world is grown; the Provinces of Havana and Santa Clara each produces about 13 per cent of the Cuban crop.

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The crop of the very best Vuelta Abajo tobacco is so small that not more than about 30,000 cigars can be made from it.

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