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Guantanamo
Mainly mountainous region, of very marked contrasts, and where only can be located in the Island areas of semi-deserted landscape; Guantánamo is the most oriental in the Cuban provinces.
Little more than 900 kilometers separate to the Cuban capital of this territory, part of which is illegally occupied for an American Naval Air Base that has in Baracoa the Prime City of Cuba, its entrance door to the international tourism.
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa (1512) was the first of the seven villages been founded in the biggest of the Antilles for the Early Spanish Diego Velázquez, becoming the first capital and the first Bishopric in fact.
Today it constitutes a picturesque town of little more than 900 surface km2 in whose environment similar forested areas are conserved, those of the times of the conquest, and the ones which identify with a sui-géneris elevation of smoothed summit baptized as the Yunque de Baracoa. |
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The own access for earth to this town constitutes by itself an attractiveness for the visitor, because it should be made through La Farola, a wriggled viaduct built in the first half of the decade of 1960, in which 11 bridges exist hanging to the hole, and whose maximum height is located in the well-known place as Altos de Cotilla, to 600 meters above the level of the sea. Nevertheless, the city has a national airport in which operate airships of medium and small size.
In Baracoa even clear evidences of the solid system of colonial fortresses are conserved, that defended it of the blockade of pirates and corsairs, as the Fortress Matachín, headquarters of the Municipal Museum, La Punta and Seboruco; the turrets of Joa and Caguase, or the own Castle of the village, become comfortable hotel.
But also, in its parochial church the only Cruz de la Parra -first Christian Spirit symbol is preserved in the Island - of the 29 that were located in different places by the Genovese admiral Christopher Columbus during his trip of discovery of the call New World.
The Obelisk of Duaba, spotted in the place for where it disembarked on December,1, 1895 the General Lieutenant of the Army Liberator, Antonio Maceo y Grajales, one of the most excellent eminent persons in the national independence; the Miel, Duaba, Yumurí and Toa rivers, all appropriate ones for a walk in Cayuca; and the Paso de los Alemanes, a mountain divided in wedge form ,interposed in the road that drives to the Punta de Maisí, the most oriental end in the Island, are points to have in consideration in the route of all visitors.
Also the Maguana each; the "tibaracones" of the Alto del Pino, attractive natural phenomena; the terraces of The Machine, or the Monitongos of Hatibonico and the Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, this last one located in the solid mountainous Moa-Sagua-Baracoa, and where the mightiest rivers ,and the forests, better conserved of the country, converge. |
