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*In 1885, Vicente Martinez Ybor moved his cigar operations to Tampa, Florida, and designed Ybor City as a modified company town, and it quickly attracted thousands of Cuban workers from Key West and Cuba. West Tampa, founded nearby in 1892, also grew quickly. Between these communities, the Tampa Bay area's Cuban population grew from almost nothing to the '''largest in Florida'''. | *In 1885, Vicente Martinez Ybor moved his cigar operations to Tampa, Florida, and designed Ybor City as a modified company town, and it quickly attracted thousands of Cuban workers from Key West and Cuba. West Tampa, founded nearby in 1892, also grew quickly. Between these communities, the Tampa Bay area's Cuban population grew from almost nothing to the '''largest in Florida'''. | ||
*Several other small waves of Cuban emigration to the U.S. occurred in the early 20th century (1900–1959). Most settled in Florida and the northeast U.S., an estimated 100,000 Cubans arriving in that time period. | *Several other small waves of Cuban emigration to the U.S. occurred in the early 20th century (1900–1959). Most settled in Florida and the northeast U.S., an estimated 100,000 Cubans arriving in that time period. | ||
*The Cuban population officially registered in the United States for 1958 was around 125,000 people including descendants. Of these, more than 50,000 remained in the United States after the revolution of 1959. | *The Cuban population officially registered in the United States for 1958 was around 125,000 people including descendants. Of these, more than 50,000 remained in the United States after the revolution of 1959.<ref>"Cuban Americans", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Americans, accessed 16 June 2021.</ref> | ||
*During the Cuban exile many refugees were granted special legal status by the US government, but these privileges began to be slowly removed in the 2010s. | |||
*The emigrants in the exodus known as "Cuban exiles" have come from various backgrounds in Cuban society, often reflected in the wave of emigration they participated in. | |||
*The majority of the 1,172,899 current Cuban exiles living in the United States live in '''Florida (917,033 in 2014), mainly in Miami-Dade County, where more than a third of the population is Cuban'''. | |||
*Other exiles have relocated to form substantial Cuban communities in '''New York City (16,416); Louisville, Kentucky (6,662); Houston, Texas (6,233); Los Angeles (6,056); Union City, New Jersey (4,970) and others. | |||
====Afro-Cuban Descendants in Africa==== | ====Afro-Cuban Descendants in Africa==== | ||