Sierra Maestra

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Sierra Maestra

For the Cuban son band,see Sierra Maestra (music)

Sierra Maestra (music)

Sierra Maestra are a Cuban band started in 1976. They sought to revive 1920's classic Son , which came from the mountain range on the east of Cuba, after which the band was named....
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Sierra Maestra is a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a chain of mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by mountain pass or valleys. Individual mountains within the same mountain range do not necessarily have the same geology, though they often do; they may be a mix of different orogeny, for example volcanoes, uplifted mountains or Fold mountains...
that runs westward across the south of the old Oriente Province from what is now Guantánamo Province

Guantánamo Province

Guant?namo is the easternmost province of Cuba. Its capital is also called Guant?namo. Other towns include Baracoa. The province surrounds the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base at Guant?namo Bay, Cuba....
to Niquero in southeast 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....
, rising abruptly from the coast. Some view it as a series of connecting ranges (Vela, Santa Catalina, Quemado Grande, Daña Mariana), which joins with others extending to the west.

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For the Cuban son band,see Sierra Maestra (music)

Sierra Maestra (music)

Mountain range

Guantánamo Province

Cuba

Copper

Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29.It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity....
, manganese

Manganese

Manganese is a chemical element, designated by the symbol Mn. It has the atomic number 25. It is found as a Oxidation state in nature , and in many minerals....
, 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....
, and 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....
. At 6,650 ft (1,999 m), Pico Turquino

Pico Turquino

Pico Turquino is the List of countries by highest point in Cuba. It is located in the southeast part of the island, in the Sierra Maestra mountain range in Santiago de Cuba Province....
is the range's highest point.

Orography

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....
rides on a separate tectonic plate, which originally was in the Pacific Ocean

Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. Its name is derived from the Latin name Mare Pacificum, "peaceful sea", bestowed upon it by the Portugal explorer Ferdinand Magellan....
but (after crossing between the then separated Americas) crashed into Florida

Florida

Florida is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the northeast....
. This along with several other violent events (including volcanic activity, the crash of the comet Chicxulub

Chicxulub

Chicxulub might mean either of the following:*The Chicxulub crater, on the Yucat?n Peninsula, in Mexico*The town of Chicxulub, Yucat?n...
, and earthquakes - the Sierra Maestra is immediately north of the Bartlett Deep, or Cayman Trench on the main Caribbean Plate

Caribbean Plate

The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic crust tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the north coast of South America....
) fractured huge slabs of rocks. Enormous tsunamis presumably from the volcanoes on the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union....
carved great steps on the coast. All this caused emergence of these mountains in a complex process that included lifting up of now cave-ridden calcareous deposits, and the development of the Bartlett Deep or Cayman Trough

Cayman Trough

The Cayman Trough, or Cayman Trench, also called Bartlett Deep, or Bartlett Trough, is a complex transform fault zone which contains a small Divergent boundary on the floor of the western Caribbean Sea between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands....
. Originally heavily forested and divided by deep river valleys, volcanic dykes, and impassable karst

Karst topography

Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the Solvation of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite....
areas, its steep valleys and abrupt fault lines make it an ideal terrain for rebellion.

History

The Sierra Maestra has a long history of guerrilla warfare. Starting with the resistance of the Tainos under Guamá

Guamá

Guam? was a Ta?no rebel chief who led a rebellion against Spanish rule in Cuba in the 1530s.After the death of Spanish governor Diego de Vel?zquez there was a series of indigenous uprisings....
, the Cimarrón Neo-Taíno nations

Neo-Taíno Nations

Neo-Ta?no are the pre-Columbian indigenous Amerindian inhabitants of Cuba, the Lucaya, Bahamas of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and to a lesser extent of Haiti and Quisqueya as opposed to the Ta?no of Boriquen ....
escaped slave cultures, and the Ten Years' War

Ten Years' War

The Ten Years' War , , also known as the Great War, began on October 10, 1868 when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de C?spedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain....
and the Cuban War of Independence

Cuban War of Independence

The Cuban War of Independence was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War and the Little War ....
. And various minor conflicts such as the Race War of 1912, and Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras

Antonio Guiteras y Holmes was a leading politician in Cuba during the 1930s.A proponent of revolutionary socialism, he participated in the radical government installed after the overthrow of the autocratic right wing Cuban President Gerardo Machado y Morales in 1933....
's uprisings against Gerardo Machado

Gerardo Machado

Gerardo Machado y Morales was the 5th President of Cuba and a general of the Cuban War of Independence. He was born in the central Province of Las Villas and was from a poor background....
and Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zald?var was a Cuban military officer, dictator and politician.Batista was the military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944....
. After 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....
returned to Cuba from exile in Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
, he and the few other survivors from the failed attack on Moncada Barracks

Moncada Barracks

The Moncada Barracks was a military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, named after General Guillermon Moncada, a hero of the Cuban War of Independence....
hid out in Sierra Maestra. They were able to expand the 26th of July Movement, starting a revolution throughout the region. They built up guerrilla columns, and in collaboration with other groups in the central provinces, Escopeteros

Escopeteros

Escopeteros in its original usage means those armed with a smoothbore long Gun barrel firearm, sometimes a trabuco or blunderbuss, and has been used in this general context in histories of Spain and Latin America ....
on the foot hills and plains, and the urban resistance, eventually overthrew Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zald?var was a Cuban military officer, dictator and politician.Batista was the military leader of Cuba from 1933 to 1940 and President of Cuba from 1940 to 1944....
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Sierra Maestra

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