Santa Cruz del Norte

Santa Cruz del Norte occupies Cuba's north coast in Mayabeque province as both a municipality and its main town. Official Cuban tourism history dates the settlement's foundation to 1800. The municipality includes Jibacoa, while its museum, banks and other public institutions use Santa Cruz del Norte as their locality.

The Ernesto Guevara thermoelectric power station operates within the municipality and feeds Cuba's national electricity system. The plant does not define the whole place: Santa Cruz del Norte also contains homes, cultural institutions, financial services and public administration. Keeping the municipality separate from the power station matters because reports about a generating unit describe one industrial site, while the place name can refer to the wider local-government area or to the town itself.