Bayamo

Bayamo is the capital metropolis of the Granma Province of Cuba and one among the largest cities in the Oriente vicinity. The network of Bayamo lies on a simple by the Bayamo River. It is stricken by the violent Bayamo wind. One of the most crucial schooling institutions within the province is the University of Granma. Bayamo became the second of the seven cities founded through Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar; it was mounted on November five, 1513. Francisco Iznaga, a Basque landowner inside the western part of Cuba for the duration of the primary 30 years of the colonization of Cuba, turned into elected mayor in 1540.

Iznaga turned into the originator of a effective lineage that subsequently settled in Trinidad, where the Torre Iznaga is. His descendants fought for the independence of Cuba and for annexation to the U.S., from 1820 to 1900. During a great deal of the 16th century it was one of the maximum crucial agricultural and industrial settlements of the island. Its inland state of affairs gave it relative protection in opposition to the pirates who infested West Indian seas, and the misfortunes of Santiago were the fortunes of Bayamo.