Granma

Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is Bayamo. Other towns encompass Manzanillo and Pilon. The province takes its name from the yacht Granma, utilized by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas on December 2d, 1956; until 1976 the vicinity shaped part of the larger "Oriente Province". The American who sold the guerillas the secondhand yacht in Mexico apparently had named it "Granma" after his grandmother. The name of the vessel became an icon for Cuban communism.

The province is full of reminders of the Cuban Revolution, and of the Cuban Wars of Independence; plaques in the mountain commemorate the 1959 struggle towards Fulgencio Batista. Other web sites, unmarked, encompass archaeological digs, the sites of numerous palenques, and the fortified hamlets of escaped slaves. In 2005 Hurricane Dennis destroyed the web page of Castro's headquarters at La Plata. There are numerous abandoned gold, silver, and manganese mine sites.