Desembarco del Granma National Park

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Desembarco del Granma National Park1
UNESCO World Heritage Site
State Party Flag of Cuba Cuba
Type Natural
Criteria vii, viii
Identification #889
Region2 Latin America and the Caribbean
Inscription History
Formal Inscription: 1999
23rd WH Committee Session
WH link: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/889

1 Name as officially inscribed on the WH List
2 As classified officially by UNESCO
Desembarco del Granma National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Location: Cuba
Coordinates: 19°53′″N, 77°38′″W
Area: 26,180 ha
Established: 1986

Desembarco del Granma National Park is a national park in south-eastern Cuba, in what is now Granma Province. The park is named after the yacht in which Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raúl Castro, and 79 of their supporters sailed from Mexico to Cuba in 1956 and incited the Cuban Revolution.

[edit] See also

Portal:Cuba
 Cuba Portal
  • Granma the revolutionaries' yacht that landed here.

[edit] External links

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Alejandro de Humboldt National Park • Coffee Plantations in the South-East • Cienfuegos • Desembarco del Granma • Old Havana • San Pedro de la Roca Castle (Santiago de Cuba) • Trinidad and the Valley de los Ingenios • Viñales Valley


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