Guantánamo in Cuba

12 February 2024 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

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Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province. Guantánamo is served by the Caimanera port near the site of a U.S. naval base. The area produces sugarcane and cotton wool. These are traditional parts of the economy. The city was founded in 1797 in the area of a farm named Santa Catalina. The toponym “Guantánamo” means, in Taíno language, “land between the rivers”.   read more…

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