Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel visited areas worst hit by Hurricane Ian in the province of Pinar del Río, where the weather event reached Category 3 and caused great damage to agriculture, houses and facilities, in addition to triggering power outages.

The center of Hurricane Ian was estimated at nine o'clock this Tuesday morning at 22.8 degrees North latitude and 83.6 degrees West longitude, over the northern coast of Pinar del Río, near Puerto Esperanza, with maximum sustained winds of 205 kilometers per hour and a minimum central pressure of 950 hectoPascal.

Preliminary reports on the passage of category-3 hurricane Ian on the province of Pinar del Rio say that the storm has inflicted more noticeable damage in homes and the electric grid.

Hurricane Ian, category 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, made landfall at 3:25 in the morning by La Coloma, located in the head municipality of Pinar del Río and in the southern portion of the province.

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez met on Monday with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Cuba’s National Civil Defense Authority issued a hurricane warning for the western provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa and the Isle of Youth municipality in the face of category II hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian has gained enough intensity and became a category II storm moving towards western Cuba, where it is expected to make landfall at early hours Tuesday at a point between the localities of San Juan y Martinez and Coloma in western Pinar del Rio province.

Over 27 thousand 300 citizens have been evacuated in eastern Pinar del Rio province as a measure to preserve human lives as hurricane Ian approaches that Cuban territory on Monday evening.

Evacuation of citizens in risky areas in the face of the impact of hurricane Ian is one of the measures adopted by Havana authorities to preserve human lives.

(ACN) Workers of the Hydraulic Resources of Isle of Youth are unblocking drainages around the island to avoid floodings from the heavy rains associated with Hurricane Ian that is moving in the vicinity.

The Cuban Institute of Meteorology issued at 3:00 this afternoon the Tropical Cyclone Warning No. 15, which due to its importance we transmit in its entirety:

Cuban prime minister Manuel Marrero Cruz arrived today in Japan, at the head of an official delegation, to participate in the state funeral of former Japanese premier Abe Shinzo, the Cuban presidency noted.

The gusts of winds associated with Ian - the fourth hurricane of the current Atlantic cyclonic season - are already perceptible in Isle of Youth, a tropical phenomenon that is approaching the territory over very warm waters, a favorable condition for its strengthening.

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party and president of the country, said today that the approval of the Code of Families, after the popular referendum held on Sunday, September 25, was an act of justice.

The National General Staff of the Cuban Civil Defense established today the Cyclonic Alert Phase for the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Artemisa, Havana, Mayabeque, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, and the special municipality of Isle of Youth, taking into account the forecasts on the trajectory of Hurricane Ian.