Oriente ([oˈɾjente], "East") was the easternmost province of Cuba until 1976. The term "Oriente" is still used to refer to the eastern part of the country...

known as Santiago de Cuba province. The present day province comprises the south-central region of Oriente. The province is rich in material resources...

on December 2, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of the larger Oriente Province. The American who sold the guerillas the secondhand yacht in Mexico...

the crop. Cattle are also grazed in the province. Las Tunas was part of the Oriente province, until that province was divided into five smaller provinces...

barrio Oriente Province, a region of Cuba before 1976 Oriente (comarca), Asturias, Spain Oriente (Ecuador), a region of eastern Ecuador Oriente (Lisbon...

Raúl was made comandante and assigned the mission to cross the old province of Oriente leading a column of guerrillas to open, to the northeast of that...

titles designer, and founder of Pablo Ferro Films. Born in Antilla, Oriente Province, Cuba, he was raised on a remote farm before emigrating to New York...

central part of the island, between western Pinar del Río Province and eastern Oriente Province. Bartolomé de las Casas, who lived among the Ciboney in...

1975, aged 57. Masferrer was born on 12 July 1918, in Holguín, former Oriente Province, Cuba. He married Lucila Montero and they had two children: Alejandro...

was building the Preston sugar mill. He made his way eastwards to Oriente province, where laborers worked in a hostile and mountainous region 500 miles...

Rivero was born to extremely poor parents in San Luis, Oriente Province (now Santiago de Cuba Province) on 4 February 1905. He taught himself to read when...

is a mountain range that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province in southeast Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. The range falls...

the first 26 years of his life, from 1926 to 1952. Born in Birán, Oriente Province, Castro was the illegitimate son of Ángel Castro y Argiz, a wealthy...

municipality of Niquero, in modern Granma Province (named for the vessel), formerly part of the larger Oriente Province. Granma was piloted by Norberto Collado...

the Oriente province. In 1955, Castro designated Frank País as chief of action of the Oriente province after País merged his organization, Oriente Revolutionary...

1960 when it was moved to the 100 pesos bill. A municipality in Camagüey Province, Carlos M. de Céspedes was named after him. Guerra Sánchez, Ramiro 1972...

26 July Movement. País became the leader of the new organization in Oriente province. Two years later he was betrayed to the police and was fatally shot...

escopeteros harassed Batista's forces in the forests and mountains of Oriente Province. The escopeteros also provided direct military support to Castro's...

elected to the Cuban House of Representatives in November 1932 for the Oriente Province. When president Gerardo Machado was overthrown in August 1933, Rep...

Representatives of Santa Clara Province Roberto Mendez Pendant (ULP) Other Elected Representatives of Oriente Province Manuel Diaz Ramirez (Liberal Provincial)...

crops in Camagüey and Oriente provinces – roughly 25% of production nationally. Approximately 50% of cotton was lost in Oriente Province, which produced about...

Cuban Army in the region of Oriente in which Raúl Castro's guerrilla unit operated, and later in the Las Villas province Batista ordered his arrest for...

wanderers. The term has also expanded to mean all people from the Oriente province, or people from outside Havana, regardless of migrant status. Since...

an ox in the "Zoológico de Piedra" (i.e.: "Stone Zoo") Cuba portal Oriente Province List of cities in Cuba Guije.com. "Guantánamo" (in Spanish). Retrieved...

itinerant musicians known as trovadores who travelled around Cuba's Oriente province, especially Santiago de Cuba, and earned their living by singing and...

(Unattested.) Quijo - once spoken on the Napo River and Coca River, Oriente province, Ecuador. The tribe now speaks only Quechua. (Ordónez de Ceballos 1614...

Socarrás. Shortly after Castro's attack on the Moncada barracks in Oriente Province in July 1953, Frank País began talking with students and young working...

believed that the mask still resides in the Museum in Santiago de Cuba, Oriente Province, where there was a large group of French immigrants that established...

unsuccessful business venture in Cuba, a plantation project in the Oriente Province in 1904. The last years of his life he lived in Sandvika, at the property...

War of Independence. In 1912, the PIC led a revolt in the eastern province of Oriente. The revolt was crushed and the party disbanded. It is believed[who...