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Niquero
Niquero is a municipality and town in the Granma Province of Cuba. It is located in the coastal region of the province, bordering the Gulf of Guacanayabo. Cape Cruz (''Cabo Cruz''), the westernmost point of the province is located in this municipality. History During Cuban Revolution, Niquero was the site of the landing of '' Granma'', a yacht boarded by 82 members of the 26th of July Movement, including Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos. On 2 December 1956 the yacht, departed from Tuxpan, in Mexico, landed in Los Cayuelos near the beach Playa Las Coloradas, few km in south of the town. The Desembarco del Granma National Park (i.e.: ''Landing of the Granma'' N. P.), located in south of the municipality, was named after the event. Geography The municipality is divided into the barrios of Belic, Guanito, Jagua, La Marea, El Plátano, Sevilla Abajo, Cabo Cruz, Hondón, Marea de Belic, Alegría de Pío, Estacadero, La Ricardo, etc. Niquero is also t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circuito Sur De Oriente
The ''Circuito Sur de Oriente'' (CSO), meaning "Southern Circuit of the Orient", is a west-east highway connecting Bayamo to Santiago de Cuba, through Manzanillo, Niquero and the southern coastal side of eastern Cuba, below the Sierra Maestra mountain range.Source: ''Mapa de Carreteras de Cuba'' (Road map of Cuba). Ediciones GEO, Havana 2011 - Also known as ''Circuito Guacanayabo-Sur de Oriente'', because it crosses the Gulf of Guacanayabo, the name ''Oriente'' (meaning "Orient"), refers to the ancient and former Oriente Province. With a length of 347 km, it is the fourth-longest Cuban highway after the " Carretera Central", the "Circuito Norte" and the " Circuito Sur". Route Description The CSO, whose endpoints cross the Carretera Central, starts in Bayamo, capital of Granma Province, and ends in Santiago, the second Cuban city and capital of Santiago de Cuba Province. It is divided into a pair of ''Carretera'' branches: *The 6-4, also known as "Carretera a Manzanillo", " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playa Las Coloradas
Niquero is a municipality and town in the Granma Province of Cuba. It is located in the coastal region of the province, bordering the Gulf of Guacanayabo. Cape Cruz (''Cabo Cruz''), the westernmost point of the province is located in this municipality. History During Cuban Revolution, Niquero was the site of the landing of '' Granma'', a yacht boarded by 82 members of the 26th of July Movement, including Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos. On 2 December 1956 the yacht, departed from Tuxpan, in Mexico, landed in Los Cayuelos near the beach Playa Las Coloradas, few km in south of the town. The Desembarco del Granma National Park (i.e.: ''Landing of the Granma'' N. P.), located in south of the municipality, was named after the event. Geography The municipality is divided into the barrios of Belic, Guanito, Jagua, La Marea, El Plátano, Sevilla Abajo, Cabo Cruz, Hondón, Marea de Belic, Alegría de Pío, Estacadero, La Ricardo, etc. Niquero is also the sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desembarco Del Granma National Park
Desembarco del Granma National Park ( es, Parque Nacional Desembarco del Granma) is a national park in south-western Cuba, stretching across the Niquero and Pilón municipalities in what is now Granma Province. The name of the park means "Landing of the Granma" and refers to the yacht in which Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raúl Castro, and 79 of their supporters sailed from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 and incited the Cuban Revolution. The National park is well known for its karst topography and coastal cliffs. The national park has a total area of 32,576 ha, of which 26,180 ha are terrestrial and 6,396 ha are marine. In 1999, it was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site because of its uplifted marine terraces and pristine sea cliffs. Description Desembarco del Granma National Park is located on the western end of the Sierra Maestra range, along the tectonically active zone between the North American Plate and Caribbean Plate. It conserves a series of limestone terraces that range ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granma Province
Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Bayamo. Other towns include Manzanillo (a port on the Gulf of Guacanayabo) and Pilón. History The province takes its name from the yacht '' Granma'', used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas on December 2, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of Santiago de Cuba larger province " Oriente Province". The American who sold the guerillas the secondhand yacht in Mexico apparently had named it "Granma" ("Granma", more usually "Grandma", is an affectionate term for a grandmother) after his grandmother. The name of the vessel became an icon for Cuban communism. The province is full of reminders of the Cuban Revolution, and of the Cuban Wars of Independence; plaques in the mountain commemorate the 1959 struggle against Fulgencio Batista. Other sites, unmarked, include archaeological digs, the sites of several palenques, and the fortified hamlets of escaped slaves. In 2005 Hurricane Dennis destroye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Luna, Cuba
Media Luna () is a town and municipality in the Granma Province of Cuba. It is located on the coastal region of the province, bordering the Gulf of Guacanayabo, between Niquero and Campechuela. Demographics In 2004, the municipality of Media Luna had a population of 35,330. With a total area of , it has a population density of . Transport The town is crossed by the state highway "Circuito Sur de Oriente" (CSO). See also *Municipalities of Cuba *List of cities in Cuba This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order. Population data refers to city proper and not to the whole municipality, because they include large rural areas with several villages. All figu ... References External links Populated places in Granma Province {{Cuba-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of Cuba
The Provinces of Cuba, provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipality, municipalities or ''municipios''. They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. II, published by the United Nations, New York, 1991 and reformed in 2010 with the abrogation of the municipality of Varadero and the creation of two new provinces: Artemisa Province, Artemisa and Mayabeque Province, Mayabeque in place of former La Habana Province. Summary The municipalities are listed below, by province: List of municipalities Municipal maps The maps below show the municipal subdivision of each province, in yellow, within Cuba. Each provincial capital is shown in red. Artemisa (Cuban municipal map).png, Artemisa Province, Artemisa Camagüey (Cuban municipal map).png, Camagüey Province, Camagüey Ciego de Ávila (Cuban municipal map).png, Ciego de Ávila Province, Ciego de Ávila Cienfuegos (Cuban municipal map). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Cruz
Cape Cruz, ( es, Cabo Cruz), is a cape that forms the western extremity of the Granma Province in southern Cuba. It extends into the Caribbean sea and marks the eastern border of the Gulf of Guacanayabo.Hernández 2001 Cape Cruz is located in the municipality of Niquero and is part of the Desembarco del Granma National Park. Architecture The southernmost tip of Cape Cruz is marked by Faro Vargas, a nineteenth-century lighthouse with a height of . Transport The cape is the endpoint of the Niquero branch of the "Circuito Sur de Oriente" (CSO) highway. Notes References * Cruz Cruz is a surname of Iberian Peninsula, Iberian origin, first found in Castile (historical region), Castile, Spain, but later spread throughout the territories of the former Spanish Empire, Spanish and Portuguese Empires. In Spanish and Portugu ... Geography of Granma Province {{Cuba-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pilón, Cuba
Pilón is a municipality and town in the Granma Province of Cuba. It is located on the southern coast of Cuba, in an inlet of the Caribbean Sea. Demographics In 2004, the municipality of Pilón had a population of 29,751. With a total area of , it has a population density of . Transport The town is crossed by the state highway "Circuito Sur de Oriente" (CSO). See also * Pilón music style *Municipalities of Cuba The provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipalities or ''municipios''. They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. II, published by the United N ... * List of cities in Cuba References External links Populated places in Granma Province {{Cuba-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Cities In Cuba ...
This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order. Population data refers to city proper and not to the whole municipality, because they include large rural areas with several villages. All figures are accurate and provincial capitals are shown in bold. See also * List of places in Cuba * Municipalities of Cuba * Provinces of Cuba References External links 2012 population statistics of Cuba {{North America topic, List of cities in Cuba, List of cities in Cities * Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution ( es, Revolución Cubana) was carried out after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which placed Fulgencio Batista as head of state and the failed mass strike in opposition that followed. After failing to contest Batista in court, Fidel Castro organized an armed attack on the Cuban military's Moncada Barracks. The rebels were arrested and while in prison formed the 26th of July Movement. After gaining amnesty the M-26-7 rebels organized an expedition from Mexico on the Granma yacht to invade Cuba. In the following years the M-26-7 rebel army would slowly defeat the Cuban army in the countryside, while its urban wing would engage in sabotage and rebel army recruitment. Over time the originally critical and ambivalent Popular Socialist Party would come to support the 26th of July Movement in late 1958. By the time the rebels were to oust Batista the revolution was being driven by the Popular Socialist Party, 26th of July Movement, and the Directorio Revoluci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Granma (yacht)
''Granma'' is the yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 for the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista. The 60-foot (18 m) diesel-powered cabin cruiser was built in 1943 by Wheeler Shipbuilding of Brooklyn, New York, as a light armored target practice boat, US Navy C-1994 and modified postwar to accommodate 12 people. "Granma", in English, is an affectionate term for a grandmother; the yacht is said to have been named for the previous owner's grandmother. Background Exile of Moncada attackers Striking their first blow against the Batista government, Fidel and Raúl Castro gathered 70 fighters and planned a multi-pronged attack on several military installations. On 26 July 1953, the rebels attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago and the barracks in Bayamo, only to be decisively defeated by the far more numerous government soldiers. It was hoped that the staged attack would spark a nationwide r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuxpan, Veracruz
Tuxpan (or Túxpam, fully Túxpam de Rodríguez Cano) is both a municipality and city located in the Mexican state of Veracruz. The population of the city was 78,523 and of the municipality was 134,394 inhabitants, according to the INEGI census of 2005, residing in a total area of . The municipality includes many smaller outlying communities, the largest of which are Alto Lucero and Santiago de la Peña. A local beachside community is also nearby. Overview Tuxpan or Túxpam, pronounced in Nahuatl, the language of the ancient Aztecs, literally means "Place of Rabbits", a compound of ''tochtli'' "rabbit" and ''-pan'' "place". The city is located on the banks of the Tuxpan River, which reaches the Gulf of Mexico downstream . Being the nearest port to Mexico City, Tuxpan is an important commercial link for Mexican imports and exports. Tuxpan is now primarily a grain port, with emphasis on soybeans and maize. Off-shore links to oil pipelines are used to transfer petroleum produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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