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Capital:	Bayamo
Area:	8,327km²
Inhabitants:	819,500
Population Density:	97.9 per km²
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Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Bayamo. Other towns include Manzanillo (a port on the Gulf of Guacanayabo) and Pilón. A violent wind blowing from the land on the south coast of Cuba, especially near the Bight of Bayamo. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... map of Cuban province File links The following pages link to this file: Granma Province Categories: GFDL images ... Provinces of Cuba Cuba consists of 14 provinces, plus one special municipality. ... A violent wind blowing from the land on the south coast of Cuba, especially near the Bight of Bayamo. ... Manzanillo is a city in Cuba. ... The Gulf of Guacanayabo is a bay along the southern coast of Cuba, bordered by Granma and Las Tunas provinces. ...

The province was named after the ship Granma, used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land on Cuba with 82 guerillas. It is generally understaood that Granma is vernacular for Grandmother. Granma was the name of a ship which played an elemental role in the Cuban Revolution. ... Che Guevara (Havana - March 5, 1960) Dr. Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara or el Che, was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. ... Cuban President Fidel Castro. ... Guerrilla (also called a partisan) is a term borrowed from Spanish (from guerra meaning war) used to describe small combat groups. ...

As a result, the province is full of reminders of the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban Wars of Independence, plaques in the mountain commemorating the 1959 struggle against Fulgencio Batista. There are many commonly unmarked grave sites from the different wars. Also unmarked, although there are archeological "digs." are the sites of the various Palenques, the fortified halmets held of escaped slaves. Recently a hurricane destroyed the site of Castro's headquarters at La Plata. There are numerous abandoned gold, silver, and manganese mine sites. This is the area where Raul Castro holds his center of power and it is said to site of secret garrisons. Mountainous part of the area produces coffee, and during the coffee harvest, there may be road blocks, where soldiers make sure the coffee goes to the government and not to the black market. Czechoslovak poster saying: We greet the heroic Cuban people. The Cuban Revolution was the overthrow of the Fulgencio Batista’s government by the 26th of July Movement and the establishment of a new Cuban government led by Fidel Castro in the 1950s. ... The word plaque can have different connotations and can also be spelt placque: Look up Plaque on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Dental plaque is a yellowish biofilm that builds up on the teeth. ... Mount McKinley in Alaska has one of the largest visible base-to-summit elevation differences anywhere A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. ... 1959 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar General Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was the de facto leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and the countrys de jure President from 1940 to 1944 and again from 1952 to 1959. ...

Municipalities

1. Bartolomé Masó (Bartolomé Masó)
2. Bayamo (Bayamo)
3. Buey Arriba (Buey Arriba)
4. Campechuela (Campechuela)
5. Cauto Cristo (Cauto Cristo)
6. Guisa (Guisa)
7. Jiguaní (Jiguaní)
8. Manzanillo (Manzanillo)
9. Media Luna (Media Luna)
10. Niquero (Niquero)
11. Pilón (Pilón)
12. Río Cauto (Río Cauto)
13. Yara (Yara)

Provinces of Cuba
Camagüey | Ciego de Ávila | Cienfuegos | Ciudad de La Habana | Granma | Guantánamo | Holguín | Isla de la Juventud | La Habana | Las Tunas | Matanzas | Pinar del Río | Sancti Spíritus | Santiago de Cuba | Villa Clara