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At the 2018 parliamentary election, Granma was the province with the highest proportion of votes recorded for the full list. [4] On 12 April 2020, Veguitas, a town in Gramna Province, recorded a temperature of 39.7 °C (103.5 °F). This is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Cuba. [5]
The route of Granma from Tuxpan to Playa Las Coloradas. Granma is a yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista. The 60-foot (18 m) diesel-powered vessel was built in 1943 by Wheeler Shipbuilding of Brooklyn, New York, as a light armored ...
The first website for Granma was created in August 1996, making Granma the first media organization in Cuba to have a website. The Granma daily news was first published on a separate website in July 1997, and the two sites were later merged. The website includes versions of the newspaper in five languages other than Spanish, and updates all of ...
Cuba's inclusions on the list include a variety of sites. Two sites are selected for their natural significance: Alejandro de Humboldt National Park in the eastern provinces of Holguín and Guantánamo , [ 4 ] and Desembarco del Granma National Park , named for the yacht which carried the members of the 26th of July Movement who started the ...
The quake, which the U.S. Geological Survey listed as magnitude 6.8, struck Cuba's southeastern coast in Granma province near the municipality of Bartolome Maso, where former Cuban leader Fidel ...
In October 1956, a group of Cuban dissidents, led by Fidel Castro, purchased a yacht called the Granma for US$15,000 from a United States-based Company, Schuylkill Products Inc. [3] The yacht, which carried 82 rebels sailed from the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz on November 25, 1956 and headed for Cuba. The revolutionaries planned to land in ...
Desembarco del Granma National Park is located on the western end of the Sierra Maestra range, along the tectonically active zone between the North American Plate and Caribbean Plate. It conserves a series of limestone terraces that range from 180 meters below sea level to 360 meters above. [ 1 ]
Granma, a yacht in which Fidel Castro and his revolutionary expedition sailed to Cuba in 1956; CF Granma, a Cuban football club; Granma (baseball) or Granma Alazanes, a baseball team in the Cuban National Series; Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party; Granma Province, a Cuban province