Granma Province | |
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| Oriental Province of Granma | |
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| Country | Cuba |
| Capital | Bayamo |
| Government | |
| • Vice-President | Yanetsy Terry Gutiérrez |
| Area | |
• Total | 8,376.79 km2 (3,234.30 sq mi) |
| Population (2014)[1] | |
• Total | 1,001,678 |
| • Density | 120/km2 (310/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Granmanese, -a |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| Area code | +53-023 |
| HDI (2019) | 0.756[2] high ·15th of 16 |
| Website | https://www.degranma.gob.cu/es/ |
Granma is one of theprovinces of Cuba. Its capital isBayamo. Other towns includeManzanillo (a port on theGulf of Guacanayabo) andPilón.
The province takes its name from the yachtGranma, used byChe Guevara andFidel Castro to land inCuba with 82guerrillas on December 2, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of the largerOriente Province. TheAmerican who sold the guerillas the secondhand yacht in Mexico apparently had named it "Granma" ("Granma", more usually "Grandma", is an affectionate term for a grandmother) after his grandmother.[3]The name of the vessel became an icon for Cuban communism.
The province is full of reminders of theCuban Revolution, and of the Cuban Wars of Independence;plaques in themountain commemorate the 1959 struggle againstFulgencio Batista. Other sites, unmarked, includearchaeological digs, the sites of severalpalenques, and the fortified hamlets of escaped slaves. In 2005Hurricane Dennis destroyed the site of Castro's headquarters atLa Plata. There are numerous abandonedgold,silver, andmanganese mine sites.
At the2018 parliamentary election, Granma was the province with the highest proportion of votes recorded for the full list.[4]
On 12 April 2020, Veguitas, a town in Gramna Province, recorded a temperature of 39.7 °C (103.5 °F). This is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Cuba.[5]
The majority of the revenue comes fromcoffee grown in the forested and mountainous regions of the province. During the coffee harvest soldiers may set up roadblocks to ensure the delivery of the coffee to the government and not to theblack market.[citation needed]
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Source: Population from 2004 Census.[6]Area from 1976 municipal re-distribution.[7]
In 2004, the province of Granma had a population of 829,333.[6] With a total area of 8,375.49 km2 (3,233.79 sq mi),[8] the province had a population density of 99.0/km2 (256/sq mi).
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