Bauta, Cuba

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Coordinates: 22°59′00.2″N, 82°33′04.6″W

Bauta is a municipality, located 25 kilometers southwest of the city of Havana in the La Habana Province of Cuba. Its territory covers 143 square kilometers.

Bauta is a regional trading center for the local farm community. Regional crops include sugarcane, pineapple, tobacco, root vegetables, and citrus fruits. In recent years Bauta has become a haven for Cuban artists and musicians.

Bauta is probably best known internationally as the site of a Soviet listening post that spied on the United States until 2000, when the facility, known as the Lourdes Base was closed by the Russian government.

[edit] Places

• Baracoa, Playa de Baracoa
• Anafe
• Bauta
• Cangrejeras
• Félix E. Alpízar
• General Antonio Maceo
• Guatao
• Punta Brava

[edit] Education

• Latin American School of Medical Sciences
• Camilo Torres

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