Cuba
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Cuba was named Nacimiento when a nearby settlement of 35 Spanish families was recognized by Governor Pedro Fermín de Mendinueta in a 1769 land grant. Established at Rio Puerco’s headwaters, it was abandoned a few years later apparently because of raids by the Navajo whose name for the area means “gopher water.
” Resettled by the McCoy and Atencio families in 1879, the area was called La Laguna and in 1887 renamed Cuba when a post office was established. Incorporated as a village in 1964, Cuba is a commercial center for rural families and a gateway to the Santa Fe National Forest.
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