Guantánamo

Guantánamo
Guantánamo
	Municipality
	Location o Guantánamo in Cuba
	Coordinates: 20°08′12″N 75°12′50″W / 20.13667°N 75.21389°W
Kintra	Cuba
Province	Guantánamo
Established	1797
Area
• Total	741 km2 (286 sq mi)
Elevation	55 m (180 ft)
Population (2004)
• Total	244,603
• Density	330.1/km2 (855/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
Area code(s)	+53-21

Guantánamo is a municipality an ceety in sootheast Cuba an caipital o Guantánamo Province.

Guantánamo is servit bi the Caimanera port an is the steid o a U.S. Naval base. The aurie produces succarcane an cotton oo. Thir are traditional pairts o the economy.

Geografie[eedit | eedit soorce]

The municipality is muntainous in the north, whare it owerlays the Sierra Maestra (muntains), an borders the Windward Passage o the Caribbean Sea in the sooth. It is crossed bi the Guantánamo, Yateras, Guaso, San Andrés an Sabanalamar rivers. The Guantánamo Bay is a naitural harbour sooth o the ceety.

The municipality is dividit intae the barrios o Arroyo Hondo, Baitiquirí, Bano, Bayate, Caimanera, Camarones, Caridad, Corralillo, Cuatro Caminos, Filipinas, Glorieta, Gobierno, Guaso, Hospital, Indios, Isleta, Jaibo Abajo, Las Lajas, Macurijes, Mercado, Ocujal, Parroquia, Palma de San Juan, Rastro, Tiguabos an Vínculo.^[1]

Unitit States naval base[eedit | eedit soorce]

Aboot 15 km awa frae the ceety lees the Guantánamo Bay, a superior naitural harbor which haes been controlled bi the Unitit States as the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base syne 1902, follaein the Platt Amendment decree. It is the steid o the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.

Demografics[eedit | eedit soorce]

In 2004, the municipality o Guantánamo haed a population o 244,603.^[3] Wi a tot aurie o 741 km² (286 sq mi),^[2] it haes a population densitie o 330.1/km² (855/sq mi).

Famous Guantanameros[eedit | eedit soorce]

Notable natives o Guantánamo include athletes Joel Casamayor, Yuriorkis Gamboa, Yumileidi Cumbá, Jaime Jefferson, Yargelis Savigne, Dayron Robles, Luis Delís, Cuban-American gymnast Annia Hatch, an cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.

See an aw[eedit | eedit soorce]

Oriente

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

↑ ^a ^b Guije.com. "Guantánamo". Retrieved 5 October 2007. (in Spaingie)
↑ ^a ^b Statoids. "Municipios of Cuba". Retrieved 5 October 2007.
↑ ^a ^b Atenas.cu (2004). "2004 Population trends, by Province and Municipality". Archived frae the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 5 October 2007. (in Spaingie)

Freemit airtins[eedit | eedit soorce]

[guije-1] Guije.com. "Guantánamo". Retrieved 5 October 2007. (in Spaingie)

[statoids-2] Statoids. "Municipios of Cuba". Retrieved 5 October 2007.

[atenas-3] Atenas.cu (2004). "2004 Population trends, by Province and Municipality". Archived frae the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 5 October 2007. (in Spaingie)

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