Archive for August, 2008
Written by: Staff, on August 28th, 2008
It is located at about 1200 kilometres from Havana in the eastern part of the country specially to the northwest of Guantánamo, the present capital of the province that takes its name and also bounds with the Moa mine municipality, a locality that belongs to Holguín.
It has an extension of 921.2 (sq. km) and it [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 28th, 2008
San Salvador de Bayamo is the second of the seven villages founded by Diego Velázquez. The area, where an indigenous community once settled down next to the shores of a river was finally established on November 5 th,1513.
By the end of 1514, the unhappy colonizers with the houses already taken on their own moved their [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 28th, 2008
The city of San Salvador de Bayamo is located in the eastern region of Cuba. It is precisely to the southeast of the island and in the middle of Valle del Río Cauto, the largest (as regard to its extension)in the country. This is a city full of history throughout all its corners. Its territorial [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 28th, 2008
In the year 1796 was founded the town of Santa Catalina de Guantánamo.
When the Spaniards arrived, the region was inhabited by the Taino Amerindians. The [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 28th, 2008
Province located in the southeast of Cuba’s eastern region. It has an extension of 6 176 sq km (2385 sq mi) and an estimated population [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 26th, 2008
This island, the largest of the Canarreos archipelago, was discovered by Admiral Christopher Columbus in 1494. During several centuries [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 26th, 2008
Special municipality, the largest in Cuba, contained in an island located in the [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 26th, 2008
The homonym capital city of the Santiago de Cuba province was founded by Diego Velázquez in 1515, by the mouth of river Paradas, [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 26th, 2008
Province located in the south of Cuba’s eastern region. It has an extension [...]
Written by: Staff, on August 26th, 2008
Bayamo, the capital of Granma was founded in 1513. It was the second village founded in Cuba an was [...]