Bayamo

This article covers the city and municipality of Bayamo. For the wind of the same name see Bayamo (wind) , for the slave rebellion leader Bayano (also Bayamo) see Bayano .

Bayamo
Coordinates: 20 ° 23 ′  N , 76 ° 38 ′  W Bayamo​ Bayamo on the map of Cuba
Basic data
Country	Cuba
province	Granma
City foundation	1513
Residents	235,107  (2012)
Detailed data
surface	918 km 2
Population density	253.4 inhabitants / km 2
height	55  m
prefix	+ 53-23
Time zone	UTC -5
Bayamos Boulevard

Bayamo is the capital of the municipality of the same name and the province of Granma in eastern Cuba . It is located at the northern foot of the Sierra Maestra and has 235,107 inhabitants (2012). The city is known as the “cradle of the Cuban nation” because of its historical and cultural merits.

The place was founded on November 5, 1513 by Diego Velázquez as Villa de San Salvador . After Baracoa , it is the second oldest of the settlement founded by the Spanish conquistadors in Cuba. In 1868 the Battle of Bayamo took place during the struggle for independence. The rebels burned the city in 1869 to keep it from falling into the hands of the enemy. One of the participating rebels, Pedro Figueredo , took the battle as a template for his song La Bayamesa , which has been used as the Cuban national anthem since 1902 .

sons and daughters of the town

• Carlos Manuel de Céspedes (1819–1874), freedom fighter and founder of the Cuban nation
• Pedro Figueredo (1819–1870), composer of the Cuban national anthem
• Pablo Milanés (* 1943), poet and singer
• Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez (1758–1819), Colombian journalist and librarian
• Sonia Bisset (* 1971), Cuban javelin thrower
• Rolando Uríos (* 1971), Cuban-Spanish handball player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Census 2012 (PDF; 257 kB) , ONE
2. ↑ ^{a b} Bayamo, la segunda villa fundada en Cuba, celebra sus 500 años , EFE in El Nuevo Herald of November 5, 2013

Web links

Commons : Bayamo  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Sights and photos from Bayamo