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    Baracoa, whose full original name is: Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa ("Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa"), is a municipality and city in...
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    Playa Baracoa, sometimes shortened as Baracoa, is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Bauta,...
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    Playa Baracoa Airport (IATA: UPB, ICAO: MUPB) is an airport west of Havana, Cuba. It is located in the municipality of Caimito, Artemisa Province, in...
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    Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa, also known as Macizo Nipe Sagua Baracoa ("Nipe Sagua Baracoa Massif"), is a mountain range of eastern Cuba. The range is located in...
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    for Polites baracoa is 4040. These two subspecies belong to the species Polites baracoa: Polites baracoa baracoa (Lucas, 1857) Polites baracoa loma Evnas...
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    October 20, Oscar made a second landfall in eastern Cuba, near the city of Baracoa. After moving ashore eastern Cuba, Oscar quickly weakened into a tropical...
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    Anolis baracoae, the Baracoa giant anole or Baracoa anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. The species is found in Cuba. Fong, A. (2020)...
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    Asunción) also called Baracoa Cathedral is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the town of Baracoa on the island and...
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  • Mapper. Google Maps - Baracoa Magangue VOR OpenStreetMap - Baracoa OurAirports - Baracoa SkyVector - Baracoa FallingRain - Baracoa Airport Accident history...
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    sweets, candies, seeds, etc. Cucurucho is a local delicacy of the city of Baracoa in eastern Cuba. Wrapped in a cone-shaped palm leaf (hence the name: cucurucho...
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  • Paramulona baracoa is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by William Dewitt Field in 1951. It is found on Cuba. Savela, Markku (October...
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    Playa Baracoa, Pueblo Textil (Ariguanabo), Rosa Marina and San Pedro (General Antonio Maceo). Baracoa River crosses the municipality, and Playa Baracoa is...
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    robber frog or Baracoa dwarf frog, is a species of frog in the family Eleutherodactylidae. It is endemic to the vicinity of El Yunque, Baracoa, in easternmost...
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    province of Cuba. Its capital is also called Guantánamo. Other towns include Baracoa. The province has the only land border of the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo...
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    Aeropuerto Gustavo Rizo) (IATA: BCA, ICAO: MUBA) is a domestic airport serving Baracoa, a city in the Cuban province of Guantánamo. It is located about 2 kilometres...
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  • flights within Cuba and formerly also served Jamaica. Its main base is Playa Baracoa Airport. The airline was established by the Cuban army and started operations...
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    first Spanish settlement was founded by Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar at Baracoa. Other settlements soon followed, including San Cristobal de la Habana...
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    States to travel into Earth orbit. Tamayo was born on 29 January 1942, in Baracoa, Guantánamo province, into a family of Afro-Cuban descent. Orphaned as...
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    2012-06-15. Guaicaba Archived 2008-02-01 at the Wayback Machine "baracoa .org - Guama". www.baracoa.org. Indians in Cuba, By José Barreiro, in Cultural Survival...
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    Hatuey of Guahabá The monument of Hatuey, in Baracoa city, Cuba—the place he besieged the most while fighting the Spanish forces. Cacique of Guahabá Born...
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    During the night of 14/15 April, a diversionary landing was planned near Baracoa, Oriente Province, by about 164 Cuban exiles commanded by Higinio 'Nino'...
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    captured and burned alive at the stake. The first Spanish settlement, Baracoa, was established on the northeast corner of the island by August 1511....
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    Archidioecesis Sancti Iacobi in Cuba) (erected 1518 as the Diocese of Baracoa) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic...
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  • Arnaldo Ochoa Born 1930 Cacocum, Cuba Died July 13, 1989 (aged 58–59) Baracoa, Cuba Cause of death Execution by firing squad Buried Havana's Cemetery...
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    in 1524. Velázquez founded the city of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa in 1511 and convoked a general cabildo (a local government council) to...
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    Placard for a local CDR office in Baracoa, Cuba....
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    isolated parts of eastern Cuba (including areas near El Caney, Yateras and Baracoa), there are Indigenous communities who have maintained their Taíno identities...
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    Air Defense Force An-26 (MSN 3805) crashed into the sea near Playa de Baracoa during a nighttime exercise, killing seven of the eight people on board...
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    Z-326T) 2065 m (6775 ft runway) Campo Teniente Brihuega Playa Baracoa – Playa Baracoa Airfield (MUPB) 22nd Regiment Nicaro Airport (MUNC) abandoned airfield...
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    Diocese of Guantánamo-Baracoa is a particular church of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, encompassing the municipality of Baracoa and the surrounding...
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