| Bayamo | |
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| Information | |
| Country |  Cuba |
|---|---|
| Region | Eastern Cuba |
| Altitude | Between 55 and m |
| Area | 918 km² |
| Population | 147 458 hab. (2008) |
| Postal code | 85100 |
| Telephone prefix | 53 23 |
| Location | |
 20 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ N 76 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ W | |
Bayamo is a city of eastern region of Cuba, capital of the province of Granma.
Understand
San Salvador de Bayamo is the second of the first seven cities founded by Diego Velasquez. The enclave, where an indigenous community lived on the banks of a river, was established on .
Towards the end of 1514, the colonizers, not content with the already appropriated hamlet, transferred the parish to the indigenous village where, thanks to its fertile lands and the increasing emigration from Baracoa, they favored the rapid growth of the population. .
This city has the enviable advantage of having been the capital of the First Republic in Arms during the independence war of the nineteenth century, linked to the decision of its inhabitants to burn the city rather than hand it over to the colonialists.
The city of Bayamo has been one of the fundamental scenes of Cuban history and culture from the wars of independence until the liberation war in the 1950s of the XXe century, which completed the with the triumph of the Revolution.
