Travel Guide of Guantanamo, Cuba
Guantánamo is the most oriental province of Cuba. His capital is the city of Guantánamo. The province borders on the naval American base of the Bay of Guantánamo, which has turned into the principal point of interest for some tourists, who only approach up to the province to observe her from a distance, although the colonial delight of Baracoa, the picturesque jaunts for the north coast and the extensive virgin beaches of the south award an additional attraction to the province. It has a surface of 6.176 km ² and there possesses a population of 507,300 inhabitants, of whom 208.000 correspond to the capital. It occupies the tenth place between the provinces of the country for his extension and the eleventh one for his population.
In this region it predominates over the relief with elevations, towards the north and to this North-East the mountains of Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa with the predominant height in the Sierra of the Curial, there stung El Gato (1.181 m); to the south-west it departs from the Sierra Maestra that is alternated by vales as those of Guantánamo, Guaso and Sabanalamar. The mountains Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa dominate the province, dividing both the climate and the scenery. The north coast is the most humid region of the country, while the southern one is the warmest.
The architecture of Guantánamo and his culture are different from those of the rest of Cuba.
Guantánamo is the most oriental of the Cuban provinces and also a territory full of contrasts in his spectacular natural stages, arid coasts almost exist of the hand with mountainous zones where it rains more than in any other part of the island. Guntánamo is that: a rural and beautiful nature and his principal tourist attractions are related strongly to his nature, to his mountains.
His principal tourist attractions are:
- Baracoa, the so-called Given priority City of Cuba, for being the first one in being founded by Diego Velázquez, somewhere near the year 1512. The town has the only delight, a proper air, taz time owed partly to the relative isolation in which it lived until La Farola constructed itself the highway in the decade of the 70 and owed also to the magic natural environment that surrounds it. It is not possible to go to the oriental provinces and not visit Baracoa, it would be an inexcusable sin. It takes access as a highway that is simultaneously the only scenic route in Cuba, 2 daily trips of bus of the company Viazul and also an airport. Accommodation in hotels and in dozens of rooms in private houses of rentals.
- The National Park Alejandro de Humboldt, located in the mountain range Moa-Sagua-Baracoa and where the most deep rivers and the forests are better preserved of the country.
- The Top of Maisí, the oriental end of Cuba and one of the most desert paísajes who can be in the island.
- The city of Guantánamo, capital of the province and commercial and economical center, it does not possess big attractions but it does not stop being an interesting point of visiting for the calmness of the city, his churches and several interesting buildings, as well as for the possibility of taking a bath in a nearby river or of doing a jaunt to the Air - naval Base of the United States (they organize themselves in the Hotel Guantánamo).
