Banes is a municipality and city in the
Holguín Province
Holguín () is one of the provinces of Cuba, the third most populous after Havana and Santiago de Cuba. It lies in the southeast of the country. Its major cities include Holguín (the capital), Banes, Antilla, Mayarí, and Moa.
The provinc ...
of
Cuba
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. Banes was an important area for the native
Taino people before the conquest by
Columbus.
The town of Banes is visited by tourists from
Guardalavaca as it is the nearest town to the
resort
A resort (North American English) is a self-contained commercial establishment that aims to provide most of a vacationer's needs. This includes food, drink, swimming, accommodation, sports, entertainment and shopping, on the premises. A hotel ...
, and both are in the municipality of Banes. A museum featuring the Taino culture is situated halfway between both towns.
History
The name comes from the inhabitants
Taino language word ''Bani'', meaning "valley".
Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Ike () was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas. Ike took a sim ...
made landfall here as a Category 4 hurricane on the evening of September 7, 2008, causing great losses of property.
Before the creation of
consejos populares, the municipality was divided into the
barrio
''Barrio'' () is a Spanish language, Spanish word that means "Quarter (urban subdivision), quarter" or "neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city delimited by functional (e.g. residential, comm ...
s of Barrio Amarillo, Angeles, Berros, Cañadón, Durruthy, Este, Flores, Macabi, Mulas, Nuevo Banes, Oeste, Retrete, Río Seco,
Samá (includes
Guardalavaca), Marcané, Veguitas and Yaguajay.
Demographics
In 2022, the municipality of Banes had a population of 66,812.
With a total area of ,
it has a population density of .
Personalities
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Fulgencio Batista (1901–1973), politician
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Victor Brown (?–2016), musician
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Rafael Díaz-Balart (1926–2005), politician
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Rafael José Díaz-Balart (1899–1985), politician
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Waldo Díaz-Balart (1931–2025), painter
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Julio González (1920–1991), baseball player
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Peruchín (1913–1977), pianist
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Gilberto Zaldívar (1934–2009), Cuban-American theatre director
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Liuba Zaldívar, Cuban-Ecuadorian triple jumper was born here in 1993
See also
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Municipalities of Cuba
The Provinces of Cuba, provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipality, municipalities (). They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. II, publish ...
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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
Cities in Cuba
Populated places in Holguín Province
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