Palma Soriano in Cuba
Friday, 12 January 2024 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination: Caribbean / Karibik General
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Palma Soriano is a
Cuban city and municipality in the
Santiago de Cuba Province . With a population of 125,385 in the city proper, it is the second-largest in the province and
the 16th-largest in Cuba .
The city was founded in 1825, uniting ranches (haciendas José Martí (the leader of the Cuban independence movement, killed in 1895, in the Battle of Dos Ríos ) was brought before it was laid in its final resting place in Santiago de Cuba .
Municipal party headquarters © Ambm1969/cc-by-sa-4.0
The city is crossed in the middle by the state highway “
Carretera Central ” (CC), the longest highway in Cuba. It is served by two exits (one in the nearby hamlet of Dos Ríos) of the
A1 motorway , on the Palma-Santiago de Cuba section.
Palma Soriano
railway station is part of the
San Luis –
Bayamo line, and is served by trains to/from Santiago de Cuba,
Guantánamo and
Manzanillo .
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