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Birﾃ｡n
Birﾃ｡n is a village in Holguﾃｭn Province of Cuba, hamlet and ''consejo popular'' of Cueto, best known as the birthplace of Ramﾃｳn, Fidel, Raﾃｺl and Juanita Castro. Their father ﾃ］gel Castro y Argiz owned a plantation there. History Until the 1976 municipal reform, the village was part of the neighboring municipality of Mayarﾃｭ. A farm in Birﾃ｡n was the birthplace of former Cuban revolutionary leaders Ramﾃｳn Castro Ruz, Fidel Castro, Raﾃｺl Castro and their sister Juanita Castro. Geography It is located south-west of Mayarﾃｭ and south of Cueto, in the foothills of the Nipe Mountains (''Sierra de Nipe''). See also *Nicaro-Levisa *Guatemala Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ... (village) References Populated places in Holguﾃｭn Province Fidel Cas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ﾃ］gel Castro Y Argiz
ﾃ］gel Marﾃｭa Bautista Castro y Argiz (, 5 December 1875 窶 21 October 1956) was a Spanish-born Cuban farmer and businessman who was the father of Cuban leaders Fidel, Raﾃｺl and Ramﾃｳn Castro. Early life ﾃ］gel Castro was born in Lﾃ｡ncara, in a small fieldstone house typical of the poor Galician peasants of that time,Ramonet, Ignacio, ''Fidel Castro: My Life''. Penguin Books: 2007 to Manuel de Castro y Nﾃｺﾃｱez (Lﾃ｡ncara, 窶 Lﾃ｡ncara, 12 June 1903) and Antonia Argiz y Fernﾃ｡ndez (Lﾃ｡ncara, 1857 窶 Lﾃ｡ncara, 16 November 1887), who had married in Lﾃ｡ncara on 16 August 1873. When he was sixteen or seventeen, he was conscripted into the Spanish military, and came to Cuba during the second War of Independence. He was stationed in the tract of land between Jﾃｺcaro and Morﾃｳn. Following the Spanish defeat in 1898, Castro went with the army back to Spain and returned to Lﾃ｡ncara. A cavalryman in the Spanish Army with no future he finally decided having fought for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 窶 25 November 2016) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President of Cuba, president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist窶鏑eninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a One-party state, one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. Born in Birﾃ｡n, the son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist and anti-imperialist ideas while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic#Trujillo Era (1930窶61), Dominican Republic and La Violencia, Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cueto, Cuba
Cueto is a municipality and town in Holguﾃｭn Province, Cuba. Geography The municipality is located southwest of the Holguﾃｭn Province, next to the border with Santiago de Cuba Province. It borders with the municipalities of Bﾃ｡guanos, Mayarﾃｭ, Mella and Urbano Noris (San Germﾃ｡n). In addition to Cueto itself, the municipal territory includes the villages of Alto Cedro, Barajagua, Birﾃ｡n, Marcanﾃｩ, and other minor localities. Birﾃ｡n, best known as the birthplace of Fidel, Raﾃｺl and Ramﾃｳn Castro, was part of the neighboring municipality of Mayarﾃｭ until the 1976 reform. Demographics In 2018, the municipality of Cueto had a population of 31,552, of which 16,308 were men and 15,244 were women With a total area of , it has a population density of . The town of Cueto, as of the 2017 census, had a registered population of 15,111 living in just over 11,000 homes. Popular culture The name of the town, along with its municipal villages of Alto Cedro and Marcanﾃｩ, figures in the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juanita Castro
Juana de la Caridad "Juanita" Castro Ruz ( , ; 6 May 1933 窶 4 December 2023) was a Cuban-American activist and writer, as well as the sister of Fidel and Raﾃｺl, both former presidents of Cuba, and Ramﾃｳn, a key figure of the Cuban Revolution. After collaborating with the Central Intelligence Agency in Cuba in 1964, she lived in the United States until her death. Early life Juana de la Caridad Castro Ruz was born in Birﾃ｡n, near Mayarﾃｭ, in what is now known as the province of Holguﾃｭn on 6 May 1933. She was the fourth child of ﾃ］gel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz Gonzﾃ｡lez and had three brothers 窶 Ramﾃｳn, Fidel, and Raﾃｺl 窶 and three sisters 窶 Angelita, Emma, and Agustina. Lina Ruz Gonzﾃ｡lez was ﾃ］gel Castro's cook; he was married to another woman when Juanita and her older brothers were born. Castro also had five half-siblings: Lidia, Pedro Emilio, Manuel, Antonia, and Georgina, who were raised by ﾃ］gel Castro's first wife Maria Luisa Argota, as well as another h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayarﾃｭ
Mayarﾃｭ is a municipality and town in the Holguﾃｭn Province of Cuba. History The origins of the city date back to 1757 in Spanish Cuba, when the first farms were established here by immigrant colonists. On 19 January 1879 the city became the seat of Mayarﾃｭ Municipality. Geography The municipality is divided into the barrios and hamlets of Barajagua, Cabonico, Cajimaya, Chavaleta Norte, Chavaleta Sur, Guayabo, Juan Vicente, Mateo Sﾃ｡nchez, Punta de Tabaco, Rﾃｭo Frﾃｭo, Cayo Saetﾃｭa, Sae-Tﾃｭa, San Gregario Norte, San Gregorio Sur and Santa Isabel. Birﾃ｡n, the birthplace of Fidel Castro, Fidel and Raﾃｺl Castro, was part of Mayarﾃｭ until the 1976 reform, when it became part of the neighboring Cueto, Cuba, Cueto municipality. Among other barrios or neighborhoods in this municipality are: Felton (on Cajimaya Bay, once the seaport for the Bethlehem Cuba Iron Mines Company -Bethlehem Steel-), Guaro (Mayarﾃｭ), Guaro, Guatemala, Cuba, Guatemala (on Nipe Bay, previously named Preston and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramﾃｳn Castro Ruz
Ramﾃｳn Eusebio Castro Ruz ( , ; 14 October 1924 窶 23 February 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary, activist and farmer. He was the eldest brother of Fidel and Raﾃｺl Castro and a key figure of the early days of the Cuban Revolution. He kept a much lower profile than his brothers throughout his life, focusing on agriculture. Biography Ramﾃｳn, the eldest of the Castro brothers, the son of ﾃ］gel Castro, a Spanish-born rancher, and his second wife, Lina Ruz, grew up on his family's large farm in Birﾃ｡n, Holguin province, in eastern Cuba. Ramon Castro, who studied agricultural engineering, spent his life tending crops and livestock. He oversaw Cuba's sugar production in the 1960s to help increase output, and he founded several state companies handling production and transport of food crops. He also participated in agricultural research. "Physically, he is stunningly like his brother Fidel, an enormous, heavy-set, gruff bear of a man, with a scraggly beard, a red face, a blustery mann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raﾃｺl Castro
Raﾃｺl Modesto Castro Ruz ( ; ; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the One-party state, one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro. One of the military leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Castro served as the minister of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, Armed Forces from 1959 to 2008. His ministerial tenure made him the longest-serving minister of the armed forces. Castro was also a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, the highest decision-making body, from 1965 until 2021. Because of his brother's illness, Castro became the acting (law), acting President of Cuba, president of the Council of State (Cuba), Council of State in a temporary 2006 Cuban transfer of power, transfer of power from 31 July 2006. Castro wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guatemala, Cuba
Guatemala, also known as Preston, is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Mayarﾃｭ, in Holguﾃｭn Province. History In the first half of the 20th century, the village was a sugar cane processing center owned and operated by the United Fruit Company and named in honor of one of the company's founders, Andrew W. Preston. In the Caribbean, processing centers for cane sugar are referred to by the Spanish term "central". Following the Cuban Revolution of 1958, United Fruit was forced to withdraw and the Cuban government renamed the town Guatemala to symbolize solidarity with the Central American nation. Due to decades of neglect and failure to modernize the mill - not to mention declining global prices for sugar - the mill/central was closed around 1990 and the village went into decline.Personal recollection of Preston by a former American resident and United Fruit employee. Geography The village is located in Nipe Bay, 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicaro-Levisa
Nicaro-Levisa, also Levisa-Nicaro, is a Cuban town and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Mayarﾃｭ, in Holguﾃｭn Province, formed by the settlements of Nicaro and Levisa. With a population of about 20,000, it is the most populated village in the municipality after Mayarﾃｭ. History Nicaro was originally named ''Lengua de Pajaro'', which translated into English means "bird's tongue", due to the shape of its peninsula, as viewed from an air ride. Geography Located on Levisa Bay just below Cayo Saetﾃｭa, and crossed by the River Levisa, Nicaro-Levisa is from Mayarﾃｭ, from Moa and about from Holguﾃｭn. The town is composed by the settlements of Nicaro () and Levisa (). Nicaro lies on a peninsula in the middle of the bay and Levisa more in the inland, very close to the villages of La Italiana and El Purio. The town is surrounded by the Sierra Cristal mountains, part of the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa range. Transport The principal road serving ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urbano Noris, Cuba
Urbano Noris is a municipality and city in the Holguﾃｭn Province of Cuba. The municipal seat is located in the town of San Germﾃ｡n. Geography The municipality is located southeast of the province, neighboring the provinces of Granma and Santiago de Cuba; and borders with the municipalities of Jiguanﾃｭ, Cauto Cristo, Cacocum, Holguﾃｭn, Bﾃ｡guanos, Cueto, Mella, Palma Soriano and Contramaestre. It counts the town of San Germﾃ｡n and the villages of Algodones, Cruce San Francisco, Estrada, Flora, Josﾃｩ A. Echeverrﾃｭa, La Caridad, La Ceiba, La Yaya, Las Cuarenta, Paranﾃ｡, Rey Dos and Santa Cruz. Demographics In 2022, the municipality of Urbano Noris had a population of 38,097. With a total area of , it has a population density of . 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contramaestre, Cuba
Contramaestre (Spanish for "boatswain") is a Cuban town and municipality in the Santiago de Cuba Province. Geography The municipality is located in the western part of the province, neighboring the provinces of Granma and Holguﾃｭn; and borders with the municipalities of Jiguanﾃｭ, Urbano Noris, Palma Soriano and Tercer Frente. It includes the villages of Altos de Ventas, Anacahuita, America Libre, Baire, El Naranjo, Guaninao, La Maritonia, Laguna Blanca, Los Negros, Los Pasos, Maffo, Palo Seco, Pino de Baire, Pueblo Nuevo and Xavier. Demographics In 2022, municipal population of Contramaestre was of 104,334, of which 44,752 in the town. With a total area of , it has a population density of . Contramaestre is known as the land of citrus. Infrastructure *Main Hospital: Orlando Pantoja Tamayo (22.July.1988) *Elementary Schools: Jose de la Luz y Caballero. Semi-internado: Orlando Pantoja T. *Secondary Schools: Pepito Tey. Rodolfo Rodrﾃｭguez *Public Library: Luz Berta Sﾃ｡nchez See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mella, Cuba
Mella is a town and municipality in the Santiago de Cuba Province of Cuba. It is located north of Palma Soriano and was named after the Cuban revolutionary and communist Julio Antonio Mella. In addition to Mella itself, the municipality includes the population centers of Mangos de Baraguﾃ｡, Palmarito de Cauto, Regina, and other minor villages. Demographics In 2022, the municipality of Mella had a population of 34,031. With a total area of , it has a population density of . Twin Town * Castel San Giorgio, Italy See also *List of cities in Cuba *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 ... References External links * Populated places in Santiago de Cuba Province {{Cuba-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
