باراکوآ
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Cuba
- Country
- Cuba
- Located in
- Guantánamo Province
- Population
- 78056
- Area
- 974.36
- Elevation
- 710
- Official website
- www.baracoa.org
- Image
- Restaurant Yaima - Baracoa.jpg
- Dialing code
- 21
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- topic's main category
- Category:Baracoa
- Commons category
- Baracoa
- Commons gallery
- Baracoa
- inception
- 1511-00-00
- postal code
- 97310
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P8168
- 323
via Wikidata · CC0
Gallery (16)
On the map
3 mapped locations