Desembarco del Granma National Park

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Desembarco del Granma National Park*
UNESCO World Heritage Site
State Party Flag of Cuba Cuba
Type Natural
Criteria vii, viii
Reference 889
Region Latin America and the Caribbean
Inscription history
Inscription 1999  (23rd Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List.
Region as classified by UNESCO.
Desembarco del Granma National Park
IUCN Category II (National Park)
Location Cuba
Coordinates 19°53′″N 77°38′″W / <span class="geo-dec geo" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for Expression error: Unexpected / operator Expression error: Unexpected / operator">Expression error: Unexpected / operator, Expression error: Unexpected / operator
Area 261.80 km²
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

  • Granma the revolutionaries' yacht that landed here.

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