Located in the westernmost part of the country, it did not have the initial attention that other Cuban villages received, first as an itinerant settlement that had its first capital in Guane, until finally the village took root in the vicinity of the river Guamá and after to transit by the instance of Village, on September 10th, the long title of province arrived. It is one of the fifteen provinces that Cuba has.

The province is located in the westernmost part of Cuba. The main geographical area is the Cordillera de Guaniguanico, the province has 11% of the country's river basins, and it has an average temperature of 25.3’ C and red and sandy soils.

Main rivers

The main ones are the Cuyaguateje River, Hondo River and San Diego River.

Higher lift

The highest elevation in the region is the Pan de Guajaibón with 692 meters of height above the level of the sea.

Administrative-political division

On November 7, 1976, a new political administrative division was approved in the Republic of Cuba, being made up of 14 provinces and 169 municipalities.

The Artemisa, Guanajay and Mariel municipalities that belonged to the Pinar del Río province, became part of the former province of Havana in 1968 (8 years before the political-administrative division of 1976).

In August 2010, the National Assembly of People's Power approved modifications to the structure of territorial organization in Cuba. As of January 2011, Pinar del Río province lost its three most eastern municipalities (Bahía Honda, Candelaria and San Cristóbal) and was left with 11 municipalities.

Its population was reduced to about 592 945 inhabitants and its current extension is 8 884.51 km. The municipalities of Pinar del Río as of January 1, 2011 are:

Sandino
Mantua
Guane
Minas de Matahambre
San Juan and Martinez
San Luis
Pinar del Rio
Consolacion del Sur
Viñales
Los Palacios
La Palma

The new division reduced the average distance between the municipalities to 46.3 kilometers, previously 56 kilometers.

In addition Pinar del Río continues to be rich in natural resources and good agricultural capacity to produce food and exportable items such as tobacco.

It maintains its important mineral resources linked to the existence of potential for forestry, tourism and energy development.

It achieves greater centrality and linkage of its provincial capital with the rest of the territory and a quantity of population and municipalities with dimensions that would allow a better attention to them.

From the regional point of view, a better balance is achieved in terms of the territorial extent and number of inhabitants of the westernmost region of the country.

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