What is "quintero"

Quintero is the name of two brands of premium cigar, one produced on the island of Cuba for Habanos SA, the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other produced from Nicaraguan and Honduran tobacco for the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly Altadis SA, now a division of Imperial Tobacco.

Quintero is a Chilean city and commune in Valparaíso Province, in the Valparaíso Region, 30 kilometers north of Valparaíso. The commune spans an area of . It was the first port in the country, created during the expedition of Don Diego de Almagro .

Quintero is a Spanish surname originating in the Spanish region of Galicia. The name comes from quinto or quinta which means "fifth". It is possible that a "quintero" was a renter of quintas (also known as haciendas, the Spanish equivalent to a ranch). The quintero would rent one-fifth of the land and pay as rent one-fifith of his produce of the land to the landlord.

Others have suggested, not dissimilarly, that the surname is habitational, derived from a placed called Quintero in Ourense province, so named from quinteiro, meaning "farmstead".

Quintero is a town in Chile.

Quintero may also refer to:

• Quintero (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name)
• Quintero (cigar brand)