# Santa Lucia (CUSLU)

**UN/LOCODE:** CUSLU  
**Country:** Cuba  
**Water Body:** Gulf of Mexico; North Atlantic Ocean  
**GPS:** 22.6667, -83.9667

Lead and zinc concentrate, not containers, is what moves through Santa Lucía (UN/LOCODE CUSLU), a small industrial port in the Minas de Matahambre municipality of Cuba's Pinar del Río province. The port serves the Castellanos polymetallic mine, operated by the Cuban-foreign joint venture Emincar, which began production testing on 1 July 2017. Port facilities at Santa Lucía were specifically upgraded to load a dedicated vessel that carries the concentrate onward to the Mariel area for further shipment. The site has a mining and port history dating back to at least the 1920s, when it already served regional ore extraction. No general cargo or container traffic runs through Santa Lucía; it functions purely as an industrial export point for the mine. The nearest major port for onward container and industrial cargo is Mariel, northwest of Havana, home to Cuba's principal deep-water container terminal.

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