Baracoa
Sign in to saveBaracoa, whose full original name is '''''' ('Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa'), is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. The area was visited by Admiral Christopher Columbus on November 27, 1492, and a settlement founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar on August 15, 1511. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba and was its first capital (the basis for its nickname '''''', 'First City').
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Baracoa
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Baracoa - El Yunque.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- A view of Baracoa across the bay
- Settlement.image_shield
- File:Coat of Arms of the City of Baracoa, Cuba.svg
- Settlement.shield_size
- 120x90px
- Settlement.image_map
- Baracoa (Cuban municipal map).png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Baracoa municipality (red) within Guantánamo Province (yellow) and Cuba
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Cuba
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Guantánamo
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1511
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 977
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 78,056
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Baracoa, whose full original name is '''''' ('Our Lady of the Assumption of Baracoa'), is a municipality and city in Guantánamo Province near the eastern tip of Cuba. The area was visited by Admiral Christopher Columbus on November 27, 1492, and a settlement founded by the first governor of Cuba, the Spanish conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar on August 15, 1511. It is the oldest Spanish settlement in Cuba and was its first capital (the basis for its nickname '''''', 'First City').
==Geography== Baracoa is located on the spot where Christopher Columbus landed in Cuba on his first voyage. It is thought that the name stems from the indigenous Taíno language word meaning "the presence of the sea".