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most eastern of the cuban provinvies is characterized by its mountainous
landscapes in which we find an interesting contrast of dry and humids
areas. The city, guantanamo,it was founded at the biginig of the
XIX century another villages of interest are Imias, San An tonio
del Sur and Yateras.
Moreover, in this provice is baracoa, the first
of the villages founded by the spanish in cuba by diego belasquez
and you can look at teh distance the famous Yunque, moutain tha
awake even colon`s iterest beacuse of its square shape. You can
reach baracoa going through a tunel built in the sierra mamed la
farola, jewelry of the cuban ingeneering in the bigining of the
ravolutionary epoch. It is in this city where we find the most important
touristic development along with historic sites, symbols of the
spanish colonial fortification built to protect cities against pirates
like the fort Matachin, la punta y seboruco.In the main parrish
of Bayamo, it si still the cruz parra, the onlysrviving of those
29 colon placed along his way to the new world.
The most eastern point of cuba, the maisi point,
encloses the nacional park alejandro de humbolt, located in the
moutainous area moa –sagua- baracoa where get together the
rivers with the biggest flow in cuba. Also we can admire teh ecologic
reserve hatibonico with remarcable elevations known as monitongos
of high amount of endemic species.
The main economic activities of this province
are the sugar production, coffe, cocoa and coconuts along with the
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