HolguÃn Province

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HolguÃn Province

Holguín is one of the provinces of

Provinces of Cuba

Administrative division, Cuba is divided into fourteen provinces and one special municipality....
Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
, the second most populous after Ciudad de la Habana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Provinces of Cuba. The city/province has 2.1 million inhabitants, and the urban area over 3.5 million, making Havana the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean....
. It lies in the southeast of the country. Its major cities include Holguín

Holguín

Holgu?n is a municipality and city, the capital of the Cuban Holgu?n Province....
(the capital), Banes

Banes, Cuba

Banes is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba.The name comes from the Taino word Bani, meaning "valley"....
, Antilla, Mayarí, and Moa

Moa, Cuba

Moa is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba.Large nickel deposits located in the Moa area are exploited in part by joint ventures with the Canada company Sherritt International....
.

The province has a population of slightly over one million people. Its territory exceeds , 25 percent of which are covered by forest.

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Christopher Columbus

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Holguín is one of the provinces of

Provinces of Cuba

Administrative division, Cuba is divided into fourteen provinces and one special municipality....
Cuba

Cuba

Havana

Holguín

Holgu?n is a municipality and city, the capital of the Cuban Holgu?n Province....
(the capital), Banes

Banes, Cuba

Banes is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba.The name comes from the Taino word Bani, meaning "valley"....
, Antilla, Mayarí, and Moa

Moa, Cuba

History

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....
landed in what is believed to have been today's Holguín province on October 27, 1492. He declared that it was "the most beautiful country human eyes had ever seen".

The Holguín province was established in 1978, when it was split from the Oriente region.

Economy

Like much of Cuba, Holguín's economy is based around sugarcane

Sugarcane

Sugarcane is a genus of 6 to 37 species of tall perennial plant Poaceae , native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Old World. They have stout, jointed, fibrous stalks that are rich in sugar and measure 2 to 6 meters tall....
, though other crops such as corn

Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
and coffee

Coffee

Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee beans, of the Coffea. Caffeinated coffee has a stimulating effect in humans....
, as well as mining

Mining

Mining is the extraction of value minerals or other geology materials from the earth, usually from an ore body, vein or seam. Materials recovered by mining include base metals, precious metals, iron, uranium, coal, diamonds, limestone, oil shale, Sodium chloride and potash....
, are also large earners for the province.

A large cobalt

Cobalt

Cobalt is a hard, lustrous, grey metal, a chemical element with symbol Co and atomic number 27. Although cobalt-based colors and pigments have been used since ancient times, and miners have long used the name kobold ore for some minerals, cobalt was only discovered in 1735 by Georg Brandt....
processing plant with shipping facilities was built at Moa

Moa, Cuba

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
. Chromium

Chromium

Chromium is a chemical element which has the symbol Cr and atomic number 24. It is a steely-gray, Lustre , hard metal that takes a high polish and has a high melting point....
, nickel

Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element, with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge....
, iron

Iron

Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe and atomic number 26. Iron is a Group 8 element and period 4 element. Iron is lustrous and silvery in color....
and steel

Steel

Steel is an alloy consisting mostly of iron, with a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.14% by weight , depending on grade. Carbon is the most cost-effective alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten....
plants dot the province as well.

Tourism

Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
has only recently begun to be developed, with a number of hotels around the Guardalavaca

Guardalavaca

Guardalavaca is a town in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba. It is a tourism location due to its white sandy beaches and warm waters.It is located on the northern shore of Cuba, bordering Bahia Naranjo , on Cabo Lucrecia, and is part of the municipality of Banes, Cuba....
area and Cayo Saetia

Cayo Saetia

Cayo Saetia is a cay in Holguin Province, Cuba.It is located southeast of Holguin between the Bay of Nipe & the Atlantic Ocean. The landmass is connected to the mainland by an animal control bridge....
. The Cuchillas del Toa

Cuchillas del Toa

Cuchillas del Toa is a Biosphere Reserve in Cuba. It is located in the eastern part of the country, mostly in the Guant?namo Province and reaching to the north into the Holgu?n Province....
Biosphere Reserve

Biosphere reserve

A biosphere reserve is an international conservation designation given by UNESCO under its Programme on Man and the Biosphere . The World Network of Biosphere Reserves is the collection of all 531 biosphere Nature reserve in 105 countries ....
Sierra Cristal National Park

Sierra Cristal National Park

Sierra Cristal National Park is a national park in Cuba. It is located in the southern part of the Holgu?n Province. It was the first National Park created in Cuba in 1930, and covers an area of ....
and Alejandro de Humboldt National Park

Alejandro de Humboldt National Park

Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt is a national park in the Cuban provinces of Holgu?n Province and Guant?namo Province. It is named after the Germany scientist Alexander von Humboldt who visited the island in 1800 and 1801....
are partly located in the province.

Municipalities

Holguín is divided into 14 municipalities

Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
:

Municipality Municipalities of Cuba The Provinces of Cuba of Cuba are divided into 169 municipality or municipios. The were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976....	Population (2004)	Area (km²)	Location	Remarks
Antilla
Báguanos Báguanos, Cuba B?guanos is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba....
Banes Banes, Cuba Banes is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba.The name comes from the Taino word Bani, meaning "valley"....
Cacocum
Calixto Garcia Calixto Garcia, Cuba Calixto Garcia is a municipality in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba. The municipal seat is located in the town of Buenaventura, Cuba.The municipality was named for Calixto Garc?a, an independence war hero....				Buenaventura
Cueto Cueto, Cuba Cueto is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba....
Frank País Frank País, Cuba Frank Pa?s is a municipality in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba. The municipal seat is located in the town of Cayo Mamb?, Cuba.The municipality was named for the revolutionary Frank Pa?s....				Cayo Mambí
Gibara
Holguín				Provincial Capital
Mayarí
Moa Moa, Cuba Moa is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba.Large nickel deposits located in the Moa area are exploited in part by joint ventures with the Canada company Sherritt International....
Rafael Freyre Rafael Freyre, Cuba Rafael Freyre is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba....
Sagua de Tánamo Sagua de Tánamo, Cuba Sagua de T?namo is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba.The Sierra Cristal National Park is partly located in the Sagua de T?namo municipality and partly in neighboring Mayar?, Cuba....
Urbano Noris Urbano Noris, Cuba Urbano Noris is a municipality and city in the Holgu?n Province of Cuba....

Source: Population from 2004 Census. Area from 1976 municipal re-distribution.

Demographics

In 2004, the province of Holguin had a population of 1,029,083. With a total area of , the province had a population density of .

Notable people

General Calixto García
Calixto García

Calixto Garc?a e I?iguez was a general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War of Independence: Ten Years' War, the Little War and the History_of_Cuba#The_War_of_1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War of Independence, which bled into the Spanish-American War, ultimately resulting in national independence for Cuba....
(1839-1898), independence wars patriot
Commander in Chief Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary leader who was prime minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976 and then president, premier until his resignation from the office in February 2008....
(1926), lawyer, former President of Cuba
Army General Raúl Castro
Raúl Castro

Ra?l Modesto Castro Ruz is the President of the Council of State of Cuba and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba of Cuba. The younger brother of Fidel Castro, he is also Second Secretary of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba , and Commander in Chief of the Military of Cuba ....
(1931), former minister of the Revolutionary Army Forces and Vice-President of Cuba, current President of Cuba
Entrepreneur and Broadcaster Marcos Rodriguez, Sr. 1927-1992, former manager of CMKF Radio in Holguin

HolguÃ­n Province

History

Economy

Municipalities

Demographics

Notable people

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