Our Region

Granma, a province located in the eastern region of Cuba, is synonymous with history.  Its name alludes to the Granma yacht, in which the expeditionaries from Tuxpan, Mexico, arrived in the lands of the province on December 2, 1956, through Los Cayuelos, Niquero, to begin the last stage of the struggle until reaching definitive liberation on January 1^st, 1959.

 It is the cradle of the Cuban Nationality and of the egregious Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, the Father of the Nation, initiator of the libertarian deed of 1868, who became the Father of all Cubans by launching the cry of independence in La Demajagua and freeing the first redemptive combat in the town of Yara.

 Historical Curiosities:

• The Major Parochial Church San Salvador de Bayamo (today the cathedral), which was partially destroyed by the fire and was later rebuilt, is the only religious temple on the island that has a mural with patriotic content inside.
•  On April 18, 1819, the first President of the Republic in Arms, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, was born.
•  On July 8, 1832, the first president of the neocolonial republic, Tomás Estrada Palma, was born.

The province of Granma limits to the north with the provinces of Las Tunas and Holguín, to the south with the province of Santiago de Cuba and the Caribbean Sea, to the east with the provinces of Holguín and Santiago and to the west with the Gulf of Guacanayabo.

 The origins of the Granma province as such date back a few decades.  It was born when Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, on November 7, 1976, from the historic La Demajagua sugar mill, before thousands of residents, proclaimed that the former province of Oriente was divided into five provinces: Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Holguín, Las Tunas and Granma.  But the leader of the Revolution found it good to make a pertinent clarification: the East was not divided, but multiplied in those brother territories.