Media Luna

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Coordinates: 20 ° 9 ′  N , 77 ° 26 ′  W

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Media Luna (Spanish crescent moon ) is the name of a city and a municipality in eastern Cuba in the province of Granma .

The municipality covers an area of ​​373.4 km² with 37,000 inhabitants, 17,000 of them in the urban area. It is located in the west at the southern end of the Gulf of Guacanayabo and in the east at the foot of the Sierra Maestra .

Media Luna is the birthplace of the Cuban revolutionary and lover Fidel Castros Celia Sánchez Manduley (1920–1980). The house where she was born is now a museum. It is also the birthplace of the Comandante de la Revolución and Bolivia fighter Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez (1925–1967).

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