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What's a Mareva?
A business associate recently gave me a cigar. He called it a mareva, but I've never heard of that size. What is it?
Posted: April 16, 2012
That's a Cuban factory term for a petit corona.
Cuban cigar sizes are called vitolas, and each cigar has two: the vitola de salida, the market name found on a cigar box that just about every cigar smoker is familiar with, and the vitola de galera, the somewhat obscure counterpart used in cigar factories.
Most of the factory names are quite unlike their market names. Here's a look:
| Market Name | Dimensions | Factory Name |
| Tres Petit Corona | 4 inches by 40 ring gauge | Perla |
| Panetela | 4 1/2 by 26 | Laguito No. 3 |
| Petit Corona | 5 1/8 by 42 | Mareva |
| Lonsdale | 6 1/2 by 42 | Cervantes |
| 8-9-8 | 6 3/4 by 43 | Dalia |
| Churchill | 7 by 47 | Julieta No. 2 |
| Lancero | 7 1/2 by 38 | Laguito No. 1 |
| Double Corona | 7 5/8 by 49 | Prominente |
A few cigars, such as robustos and coronas, have identical factory and market names.
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Luiz Roberto Farah — Curitiba, Parana, Brazil, — April 22, 2012 11:11am ET
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Today my favorites cigars are Mareva because have good draw, construction and flaver. In few minutes I have a cigar with great caracteristics and the exemples are: Bolivar Petit Corona, Trinidad Reyes, Por Larranaga.