Cojímar

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Cojímar Bay
Street in Cojímar
La Terraza restaurant

Cojímar is a district of the Municipio Habana del Este in Cuba with about 21,000 inhabitants.

location

Cojímar is about ten kilometers east of the center of Havana by the sea. The rocky coast is now built on with many hotels. Nearby is the Valle de Cojímar nature reserve , a 5 km² wetland area.

history

The origins of Cojímar go back to a small fort, the Torreón de Cojímar , built by Giovanni Bautista Antonelli in 1649 , and a fishing settlement. In 1762 the English took the fort and from here they conquered Habana. In the 19th century, Cojímar developed into a bathing and health resort due to its balanced maritime climate. It was from here that the first telegraph cable was laid from Cuba to Florida in 1878 . In the 1920s tourism experienced a further boom. In 1926 the place was devastated by a hurricane.

In June 1945, six fishermen caught a great white shark over six meters long, one of the largest of its species to have ever been shot. This event formed the basis for Ernest Hemingway's novella The Old Man and the Sea . The role model of the main character was the captain Gregorio Fuentes , who died in Cojímar in 2002.

In the Las Arecas restaurant (today: La Terraza), Ernest Hemingway , who was friends with the fishermen in the village, wrote two of his novels. On the harbor promenade, a Hemingway bust cast from brass fittings from ships (with false information about the birthday) in a six-column roundabout has been commemorating the American since 1962 .

In 1991 the accommodations for the participants of the Pan American Games were built in Cojímar .

Hurricane Ike caused severe damage in Cojímar in 2008.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Cojímar  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Monster Great White of Cojimar. In: Texas Cryptid Hunter. texascryptidhunter.blogspot.de, accessed on September 22, 2017 (English).

Coordinates: 23 ° 10 ′  N , 82 ° 18 ′  W