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Cuba's Council of Ministers officially declared 144 new protected areas, which makes up nearly 19% of Cuba. According to the National Center for Protected Areas of the Environment Agency, this represents 22.76% of the inland waters and 15.96% of the land. In 2021, 26 more protected areas emerged in most of the nation's provinces, where Las Tunas and Guantanamo (both in eastern region) top the list with four, respectively. In the first case are the Malagueta Bay Fauna Refuge, and the flora reserves Las Nuevas, Monte Naranjito-Cenicero, and San Miguel del Junco. Guantanamo has similar numbers: the natural elements Paso de los Alemanes and Maisi-Caleta; the Maisi-Yumuri Protected Natural Landscape; and the Pico Galan Managed Floristic Reserve.
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