Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag
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Why Go? To many people, Guantánamo conjures up pictures of nameless prisoners in orange jumpsuits. But Cuba’s wettest, driest, hottest, oldest and most mountainous prov- ince isn’t just an anachronistic US Naval Base. Cuba in the modern sense started here in 1511, when Diego Velázquez and his band of colonizers landed uninvited on the rain- lashed eastern coastline. Today it lives on in Baracoa, the city Velázquez founded, one of the country’s most isolated settlements and beautifully unique as a consequence. The province’s rugged transport artery is La Farola, one of the seven engineering marvels of modern Cuba, a weav- ing roller coaster that travels from the dry cacti-littered southern coast up into the humid Cuchillas Toa mountains. Overlaid by the fecund Parque Nacional Alejandro de Hum- boldt, this heavily protected zone is one of the last, and most biologically diverse, swaths of virgin rainforest left in the Caribbean. When to Go ¨ Baracoa’s biggest festival, the Semana de la Cultura (p448) Baracoesa, is in late March/early April. ¨ The city of Guantánamo gets animated in mid-December for the Festival Nacional de Changüí. ¨ Avoid the worst of Baracoa’s heavy storms by staying away in September and October. Guantánamo’s climate varies hugely, but it’s dependent more on geography than season. Guantánamo Province %21 / pOp 511,100 Best Places to Eat ¨ Restaurante 1870 (p441) ¨ Bar-Restaurante La Terraza (p450) ¨ La Rosa Nautica (p450) ¨ Rancho Toa (p452) Best Wildlife Excursions ¨ El Yunque (p453) ¨ parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt (p453) ¨ Río Toa (p452) ¨ Boca de Yumurí (p445) Guantánamo ............. 438 Around Guantánamo US Naval Base ........... 444 South Coast............... 444 Punta de Maisí........... 445 Boca de Yumurí & Around ................... 445 Baracoa ..................... 445 Northwest of Baracoa ..................... 452 Parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt .................. 453 ©Lonely Planet Publications Pty Ltd
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Why Go?To many people, Guantánamo conjures up pictures of nameless prisoners in orange jumpsuits. But Cuba’s wettest, driest, hottest, oldest and most mountainous prov-ince isn’t just an anachronistic US Naval Base. Cuba in the modern sense started here in 1511, when Diego Velázquez and his band of colonizers landed uninvited on the rain-lashed eastern coastline. Today it lives on in Baracoa, the city Velázquez founded, one of the country’s most isolated settlements and beautifully unique as a consequence.
The province’s rugged transport artery is La Farola, one of the seven engineering marvels of modern Cuba, a weav-ing roller coaster that travels from the dry cacti-littered southern coast up into the humid Cuchillas Toa mountains. Overlaid by the fecund Parque Nacional Alejandro de Hum-boldt, this heavily protected zone is one of the last, and most biologically diverse, swaths of virgin rainforest left in the Caribbean.
When to Go¨¨ Baracoa’s biggest festival, the Semana de la Cultura
(p448) Baracoesa, is in late March/early April.
¨¨ The city of Guantánamo gets animated in mid-December for the Festival Nacional de Changüí.
¨¨ Avoid the worst of Baracoa’s heavy storms by staying away in September and October. Guantánamo’s climate varies hugely, but it’s dependent more on geography than season.
Guantánamo Province%21 / pOp 511,100
Best Places to Eat¨¨ Restaurante 1870 (p441)
¨¨ Bar-Restaurante La Terraza (p450)
¨¨ La Rosa Nautica (p450)
¨¨ Rancho Toa (p452)
Best Wildlife Excursions¨¨ El Yunque (p453)
¨¨ parque Nacional Alejandro de Humboldt (p453)
¨¨ Río Toa (p452)
¨¨ Boca de Yumurí (p445)
Guantánamo.............438AroundGuantánamoUSNavalBase...........444SouthCoast...............444PuntadeMaisí...........445BocadeYumurí&Around...................445Baracoa.....................445NorthwestofBaracoa.....................452ParqueNacionalAlejandrodeHumboldt..................453
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