Birán
Coordinates: 20 ° 33 ′ N , 75 ° 55 ′ W
Birán is a small town in the Municipios Mayarí in the Holguín province in eastern Cuba . It is located about 30 km southwest of the city of Mayarí on the edge of the Sierra de Nipe, and about 100 km north of Santiago de Cuba .
Fidel Castro and his siblings were born in Birán . Her father Ángel Castro Argiz managed a 10,000 hectare sugar cane plantation here and in the surrounding area , 777 hectares of which were owned and 9,712 hectares were leased.
In 2009 the municipality of Birán was declared a National Monument ( Monumento Nacional ) because of its outstanding historical value as the birthplace of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution .
Sons and daughters
- Ramón Castro Ruz (1924-2016)
- Fidel Castro (1926-2016)
- Raúl Castro (* 1931)
- Juanita Castro (* 1933)
Web links
- El Birán Histórico (The Historical Birán), ahora.cu (Spanish)
- Birán en el paisaje histórico de Cuba (Birán in the course of Cuban history), Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ^ Norberto Fuentes : The autobiography of Fidel Castro . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54216-6 , p. 33.
- ^ Castro brothers: place of birth becomes a memorial . n-tv .de, February 4, 2009.