Marien

Marién was an Indigenous district in western Cuba, between the regions called Habana and Guaniguanico. Early accounts place it across the island from the northern coast toward the southern shore, near the bay later known as Mariel. Its people lived in a landscape of coastal waters, lowlands and hills before the Spanish conquest extended westward in the early sixteenth century. The old district’s name survives in descriptions of Cuba’s Indigenous geography.

The later city of Artemisa lies here.