Guantánamo

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Map of Cuba with the location of Guantánamo

Guantánamo (Spanish), also rendered as Guantanamo, is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province.

The municipality covers 2,150 km² and includes the communities of Arroyo Hondo, Baitiquirí, Bano, Bayate, Caimanera, Camarones, Caridad, Corralillo, Cuatro Caminos, Filipinas, Glorieta, Gobierno, Guaso, Hospital, Indios, Isleta, Jaibo Abajo, Lajas, Macurijes, Mercado, Ocujal, Parroquia, Palma de San Juan, Rastro, Tiguabos and Vínculo.

1 Geography
2 Famous Guantánamerans
3 US naval base
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Geography

The municipality is mountaineous in the north, where it overlays the Sierra Maestra (mountains), and borders the Caribbean Sea in the south. It is crossed by the Guantánamo, Yateras, Guaso, San Andrés and Sabanalamar rivers. The Guantánamo Bay is a natural harbour south of the city.

The city has about 208,000 inhabitants and most of them live from producing sugarcane and cotton wool.

Guantanamo is served by the Caimanera port.

[edit] Famous Guantánamerans

Notable natives of Guantánamo include athletes Joel Casamayor, Yumileidi Cumbá, Jaime Jefferson, Yargelis Savigne, Luis Delís, and Cuban-American gymnast Annia Hatch.

[edit] US naval base

About 15 km away from the city lies the Guantánamo Bay, a superior natural harbor which has been controlled by the United States as the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base since 1902, following an accord that grants unlimited lease of the harbour to the US.

The military base contains detention centers, currently used for alleged unlawful combatants captured in the War on Terrorism. The detention centers consist of the temporary Camp X-Ray, which is now closed, and the permanent Camp Delta.