Desembarco del Granma National Park
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| Location: | Granma Province , Cuba | ||
| Surface: | 326 km² | ||
| Founding: | 1986 Cuba, 1999 UNESCO | ||
The Desembarco del Granma National Park is a national park in southeast Cuba in the Granma Province .
The area designated as World Heritage with a total area of 35,467 ha, of which 26,180 ha is land and 6,287 ha is lake, includes the marine terrain of Cabo Cruz , about 150 km west of Santiago de Cuba .
The national park in the tectonically active zone at the junction of the Caribbean and the North American plate puts a unique coastal landscape under protection: the largest and best preserved marine terrace system in Cuba.
Here on December 2nd, 1956, the revolutionaries around Fidel Castro landed on the yacht Granma . The name of the national park recalls this event: Desembarco del Granma = landing of the Granma.
tourism
The visitor center of the national park is located on the access road to the park . There is a replica of the yacht Granma in the original scale.
Web links
- World Database on Protected Areas - Desembarco del Granma National Park (English)
- Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
- Data sheet for the park at UNEP (English; PDF; 99 kB)
Cultural heritage: Old town and fortifications of Havana (1982) | Trinidad and the Valle de los Ingenios (1988) | Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca (1997) | Valle de Viñales Cultural Landscape (1999) | Archaeological landscape of the first coffee plantations in southeastern Cuba (2000) | Historic city center of Cienfuegos (2005) | Historic center of Camagüey (2008)
Natural heritage: Desembarco del Granma National Park (1999) | Alexander von Humboldt National Park (2001)