Birán
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Birán is a village in Holguín Province of Cuba, hamlet and consejo popular of Cueto, best known as the birthplace of Ramón, Fidel, Raúl and Juanita Castro. Their father Ángel Castro y Argiz owned a plantation there.
Key facts
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- Birán
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- Village
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- File:Biran cueto cuba.jpg
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- Birán, Cueto
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- Cuba
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- none
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 280
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- Location of Birán in Cuba
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- Country
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- Province
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- Holguín
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- Municipality
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- Cueto
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- Founded
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- 66
- Settlement.population_total
- 1788
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.timezone
- EST
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Birán is a village in Holguín Province of Cuba, hamlet and consejo popular of Cueto, best known as the birthplace of Ramón, Fidel, Raúl and Juanita Castro. Their father Ángel Castro y Argiz owned a plantation there.
==History== Until the 1976 municipal reform, the village was part of the neighboring municipality of Mayarí.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Birán” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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