Editing Varadero (section)

==History==
[[File:Boca de Camarioca, Cuba (5973742083).jpg|thumb|right|300 px|Boca de Camarioca]]

Varadero was mentioned for the first time in 1555.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.justcuba.org/cuba/varadero/varadero-history.asp |title=Cuba Travel - Varadero history |access-date=2006-12-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070626045437/http://www.justcuba.org/cuba/varadero/varadero-history.asp |archive-date=2007-06-26 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The place was first used as a dry dock (Spanish: ''varadero'') and the salt mines of the peninsula (closed in 1961) supplied most of the Spanish Latin America Fleet since 1587. However, the foundation date of Varadero as city was only on December 5, 1887, when ten families from the city of [[Cárdenas, Cuba|Cárdenas]] obtained a permission to build their vacation homes between today's 42nd and 48th Streets. Varadero village came about in the 1880s as a summer resort. The first homes with red roofs made of wood can still be seen along Avenida 1ra.<ref name=":3">{{cite book |title=Cuba |last=Baker |first=Christopher |publisher=National Geographic |year=2017 |isbn=978-1-4262-1769-2 }}</ref>

It was established as a municipality (Spanish: ''[[municipio]]'') at the administrative re-distribution of July 3, 1976<ref>Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. II, published by the United Nations, New York, 1991</ref> from territories previously part of Cárdenas. In August 2010, the Varadero municipality was abolished according to a Law approved by the Cuban National Assembly, becoming again part of the [[Cárdenas, Cuba|Cárdenas]] municipality.