Guantánamo

See also: Guantanamo

Guantanamo ( Guantánamo in Spanish) is a city being in the South-east of Cuba, in the Province of Guantanamo of which it is the capital. Built in the north of a deep bay, its population is of 208.000 inhabitants approximately, the majority living of the culture of the Canne to sugar and the Coton.

The base of Guantanamo

This city became famous following the establishment for the the United States of the naval Base military of Guantanamo bay , located at 15 km of the city, on which station currently permanently approximately 7  000 men. This one has a surface of 117,6 km distributed out of the two with dimensions ones of the entry of bay, prohibiting at the city any direct access with the sea. The territory is rented by the US government for 4  085 dollars per annum (boxed annually by check), since the February 23rd 1903 (under the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt). Fidel Castro was always praised never not to have boxed only one of these accounts - checks (except that of 1959, year of its come to power on the ïle). The base is accessible only with the assent from the two parts. It is inside this base that is the Prison of Guantanamo. The film The Road to Guantanamo offers a reconstituted vision of this prison.

Anecdote

The city is also known by the song Guajira Guantanamera.

External bonds

  • Guantanamo on Wikitravel
  • Article on the history of the prison of Guanatamo

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