Baracoa

Baracoa is a municipality and town in Guantanamo Province near the japanese tip of Cuba. It become visited with the aid of Admiral Christopher Columbus on November 27, 1492, after which founded with the aid of the primary governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar on August 15, 1511. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba and changed into its first capital. Baracoa is located instant where Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage.

It is thought that the name stems from the indigenous Arauaca language phrase which means "the presence of the ocean". Baracoa lies on the Bay of Honey and is surrounded via a extensive mountain variety, which reasons it to be quite isolated, apart from a unmarried mountain road constructed within the 1960s. The municipality includes the villages of Barigua, Boca de Yumurí, Cabacu, Cayoguin, Jamal, Jaragua, Los Hoyos, Mabujabo, Mosquitero, Nibujon, Paso Cuba, Sabanilla, Santa Maria, Vega de Taco, and different minor localities.