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	Granma Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Granma is one of the provinces of Cuba.
		As a result, the province is full of reminders of the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban Wars of Independence, plaques in the mountain commemorating the 1959 struggle against Fulgencio Batista.
		Coffee is grown in the mountainous regions of the province, and during the coffee harvest, there may be road blocks, where soldiers ensure that the coffee is delivered to the government and not the fl market.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Granma_Province (324 words)

	granma.cu -
		PRESIDENT Fidel Castro emphasized the progress achieved in Granma province during his closing remarks at the central event celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Garrisons, in Patria de Bayamo Plaza in that eastern province.
		Fidel referred to other projects and technological improvements in Granma’s specialized healthcare centers, and informed that 2,232 residents of the province are among the Cubans engaged in medical missions in 72 countries.
		The Cuban president noted that it was in Granma that the first victorious battle against the Batista dictatorship took place, and he recalled military actions in the outskirts of the city of Bayamo, praising the heroism of the Rebel Army’s combatants.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/2006/julio/jue27/31granma-I.html (1260 words)

	Cuba-Junky \| Granma Province (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Granma Province is full of beautiful nature like the Gran Parque Nacional Siera Maestra mountains, and Parque Nacional Desembarco del Granma.
		The province also has road and rail connections with the rest of the country.
		The Granma highway, which links it to Santiago de Cuba Province, is 130 miles (210 km) in length and has 32 bridges-one of which is 2690 feet (820 meters) long- that span the mouths of several rivers and offer some particularly stunning views.
	www.cuba-junky.com /granma/index.htm (843 words)

	GRANMA INTERNACIONAL DIGITAL, CUBA ESPAÑOL
		This explains the joy felt by the authorities and inhabitants of Granma province — one of the three involved in the huge 8,969-square-kilometer basin — when on November 8, after four years of arduous work, they met in one of Guisa municipality’s flourishing forest farms.
		José Antonio Leyva, president of Granma province’s local government, highlighted how these farms are an efficient alternative for land use; as well as favoring high timber and food production and protecting the ecosystems, they are a source of employment and improve the living conditions of the area’s inhabitants.
		When she receiving the Granma International journalists in her new home, we observed how proud she was to belong to a project that is now contributing to the greening of the area.
	www.granma.cu /ingles/noviembre02/lu18/cauto.html (848 words)

	Embajada de Cuba en Holanda
		That hurricane ferociously lashed the province of Granma, and that obliged us to turn our attention away from the main construction projects then underway and to concentrate on the repair or re-construction of 46 300 homes which had been affected, 14 196 of which had been completely destroyed, according to estimates.
		The province has the equipment needed to supply the 100 per cent of the households scheduled to receive these appliances during the first stage of this process, that is to say, those homes that have the required electrical infrastructure.
		Granma reports the lowest infant mortality rate associated to congenital malformations in the country: 0.4 per every one thousand live births.
	www.embacuba.nl /fidel0726.htm (7943 words)

	Granma's turistic maps and information
		Granma is located in the region of the East of the island.
		The steep coast towards the south by the bordering presence of mountains is low and sometimes marshy.
		The province takes the name of the yacht in which Fidel Castro arrived from Mexico, with 82 men, December 2th of 1956, to initiate its revolution from the mountains of Sierra Maestra.
	www.rentaencuba.com /en/mapas_granma.htm (214 words)

	USA CUBA TRAVEL: A Destination & Travel Guide to Granma, Cuba.
		The eastern province of Granma, located in the southeastern region of the county, is an important center for tourism because it offers rich natural surroundings featuring a combination of sea and mountains.
		This was the beginning of the last stage of the struggle that concluded with the triumph of the revolution in 1959.
		The province is also characterized by the huge plain of the Cauto River—the longest in Cuba—and the Sierra Maestra mountain range, featuring Pico Turquino, the highest mountain in the country rising 1,974 kilometers above sea level.
	www.usacubatravel.com /granma.html (342 words)

	Rebuilding lives in Cuba's Granma province after Hurricane Dennis
		She is one of the 57 people remaining in the shelter in the local school, until she has a new home to go to.
		The Granma region is predominantly rural, with agriculture its main source of income.
		The local authorities have been providing two meals a day for her family, while she is living in the shelter, and she is confident that she will have a new home in the future.
	www.churchworldservice.org /news/archives/2005/08/312.html (616 words)

	Cayman Islands - Cay Compass News Online - Castro touts social achievements
		Returning to his roots in eastern Cuba, Castro also praised Granma province, named for the yacht that carried him back to Cuba in 1956 to launch the battles that led him to triumph three years later.
		Also carved on the side was a rendering of the yacht Granma – named after someone’s grandmother – that landed on the coast near here almost 50 years ago, carrying Castro and a small band of men from Mexico.
		Bayamo, the capital of Granma province, was also the site of numerous key battles in Cuba’s independence wars against Spain and the revolution Castro led to overthrow Batista’s government.
	www.caycompass.com /cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1015137 (747 words)

	Damage reports from Cuba
		It also said that ''most of the deceased'' lived in the provinces of Granma and Santiago de Cuba, leaving open the possibility that more victims might be found later in other provinces.
		Along with Granma, the provinces of Santiago de Cuba and Cienfuegos were the worst affected in terms of material damage, and remained so into Saturday.
		GRANMA -- More than 76 percent of the houses in Niquero and Pilon in the southwestern Cuban province of Granma were totally or partially destroyed by Hurricane Dennis on Friday.
	www.canf.org /2005/1in/desde-Cuba/2005-jul-11-damage-reports.htm (2992 words)

	2001prog
		Granma is one of the five provinces in the "Oriente", Eastern Region of Cuba, the others being Las Tunas, Holguin, Santiago de Cuba and Guantanamo.
		Granma witnessed two wars of independence from Spain and the beginning of the struggle that earned Cuba's independence from the United States.
		Bayamo is the capital city of the Province of Granma.
	members.shaw.ca /friendship/brigade/2001prog.html (1964 words)

	Náutica de Cuba. General information: Granma Province (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Granma is an eastern province located southwest of the island.
		The province’s main city, Bayamo, is honored to be one of the first villages founded in the XVI Century, set on fire by its citizens when menaced to be invaded by the colonial Spanish troops in 1869.
		The puerco asado en púa (spit roast pork)- a traditional meal in the province- is one of the gastronomic options.
	www.nautica.co.cu.cob-web.org:8888 /fijas1/datosgranma1.htm (610 words)

	Granma (yacht) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Granma is the vessel that was used to transport the fighters of the Cuban Revolution to Cuba in 1956 for the purpose of overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
		Shortly after midnight on 25 November 1956 in the Mexican port of Tuxpan, Veracruz, the Granma was surreptitiously boarded by 82 members of the 26th of July movement including their leader, Fidel Castro, his brother, Raúl Castro, Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos.
		A portion of old Oriente Province, where the expedition made landfall, was renamed Granma Province in honor of the vessel and the Landing of the Granma National Park established at the location has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Granma_(yacht) (379 words)

	Zero Infant Mortality in Cuban Mountains
		The extensive mountainous region of Cuba's eastern province of Granma has maintained zero infant mortality rate in under-one-year-old children, since 2002 to date, the National News Agency said.
		Currently, a fifth part of the around 900,000 inhabitants of the said province live in the mountains, where several assistance units operate, including family doctor and nurse's offices and hospitals, that are assisted by over 300 professionals of the sector.
		Granma province closed March with a 4,9 infant mortality rate of under-one-year-old children per 1000 live births, which places it among the lowest achieved in the country.
	www.globalexchange.org /countries/cuba/1757.html (146 words)

	Hands On: Revolution Trees - Cuba
		Granma, an eastern province in Cuba, extends over approximately 8400 square kilometres and has a population of 830,000 people, of whom more than 670,000 live in rural areas.
		The province contains the second largest river, 'Rio Cauto', which is 140 km long and crosses three of the five oriental provinces forming the Cauto River Basin, the largest and most important water reserve in the country.
		Granma became a development priority for the Cuban government who needed to protect the water table, combat drought, halt erosion and curb the rate of migration from rural to urban areas.
	www.tve.org /ho/doc.cfm?aid=1356 (1571 words)

	LA NUEVA CUBA
		Sentenced to death on 4 April 1997 for the murder of a communist party official during a fight in Bayamo, Granma province.
		Irovelio Hernández Inda was from Camagüey province and Reinaldo Daniel Ramos Ramírez was from Ciego de Avila province.
		A resident of Holguín province was reportedly sentenced to death in March 1999.
	www.lanuevacuba.com /archivo/pena-de-muerte.htm (879 words)

	Speech given by Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Republic of Cuba, at the Open Forum of the Revolution held in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The programs I mentioned were, in the order that their inaugurations took place in Granma province: firstly, the completion and opening of the Manzanillo School of Visual Arts, which is named after the illustrious painter and intellectual, Carlos Enrique.
		There are some provinces where it is 5, provinces which have less than 5 and entire municipalities which don’t have even one in a year, which shows you the current possibilities of our country.
		When the struggle, which began in Granma, spread to Santiago de Cuba and to the rest of the former Oriente province and to Camagüey, the independence movement had sprung to life in a nation that was almost completely unarmed.
	www.cuba.cu /gobierno/discursos/2002/ing/f300302i.html (5549 words)

	Bicycling Cuba, Overview
		To enjoy biking in the central city, one must develop a taste for diesel fumes, but quiet rural roads are not far away.
		Leaving Santiago de Cuba, we traveled west along the south coast to Granma Province.
		Through Las Tunas, Camaguey and Ciego de Avila Provinces, the land was flat or gently rolling -- great for cattle and sugar, but not as beautiful as Granma and Santiago de Cuba provinces.
	www.bicyclingcuba.com /bikecuba/overview.htm (472 words)

	ACN
		The Cuban President said that Granma currently has 47,409 university students, that is, three times more than in 1959 at the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
		Likewise, Fidel recalled that 232 doctors from Granma are currently doing humanitarian service abroad as members of the island's Henry Reeve international medical brigade.
		The Cuban President also praised the progress achieved in that province in the saving of energy with the installation of modern power generators and the distribution of low consumption electrical appliances.
	www.ain.cubaweb.cu /idioma/ingles/2006/jul26fidel-granma.htm (430 words)

	Granma - GoCuba.ca - Cuba Tourist Board in Canada
		Granma province is renowned for its battles and its natural gifts.
		And the towns echo with memories of slaves, conquistadors and peasants.
		Named after the boat that Fidel Castro used in his revolution, Granma Province is in Cuba’s wild southwest –a great valley crossed by the Cauto River and framed by the magnificent Sierra Maestra mountains on the edge of the island’s rugged Caribbean shore.
	www.gocuba.ca /en/destination_granma.asp (299 words)

	Granma Cuba - Meet Granma Cuba with us (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It is one of the most geologically diverse of all the island's provinces, The Sierra Maestra mountain range in the east is the most striking section of landscape and contrasts vividly with the flat plains around the Cauto river to the west of Granma.
		This province takes its name from the yacht which landed near its southwestern tip bearing Castro, Che, and their supporters.
		Roadside rice paddies and cane plantations thousands of acres in size fill its flat northern plains, overseen by the forested northern slopes of the Sierra Maestra.
	www.supercubatravel.com.cob-web.org:8888 /destinations/granma.asp (387 words)

	Cuba Granma City and Provincial Guide, Tourist Spots, Hotels, Travel planner, History and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This province comprises the northern slopes of the Sierra Maestra mountains and its western end, ending in Cabo Cruz, as well as the middle and lower basins of Cauto river.
		The southern coast, abrupt due to the closeness of the mountains, is low and swampy sometimes.
		The province is named after the yacht in which Fidel Castro, together with 82 men, arrived from exile in Mexico on December 2nd,1956 to start the guerrilla fight in the mountains.
	www.cuba-granma.com (437 words)

	Granma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Granma (yacht), in which Fidel Castro and his revolutionary expedition sailed to Cuba in 1956.
		Granma (newspaper), the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party.
		Granma Province, in the country's south-east, where the yacht made landfall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Granma (120 words)

	Bayamo : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Granma province is unusually easygoing and lethargic, even by the standards of stifling hot and dry eastern Cuba, but its retiring pace and unassuming nature belie a turbulent, indelible role in modern Cuban history.
		Bayamo, the capital of the province, and the densely forested, impenetrable mountains of the Sierra Maestra at the extreme southwest corner of the Oriente region have long been at the forefront of political turmoil and rebellion.
		Bayamo, one of Cuba's original seven villas and today a midsize city and the capital of Granma province, is considered the birthplace of Cuban independence.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/bayamo/3199010001.html (560 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 07/27/2006 \| Castro chides U.S. on health programs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Castro gathered flag-waving masses dressed in red in the eastern city of Bayamo, the capital of Granma province about 500 miles east of Havana, to celebrate July 26, Cuba's most important national holiday.
		He focused his speech on the advances seen in Granma province, saying it has three times as many university students as in 1959.
		No detail was small enough for Castro to mention, from the number of operating rooms in the province's new clinics (10) to the number of its fine-arts students (171).
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/news/world/cuba/15131239.htm (593 words)

	Press Releases: Caribbean: Hurricane Dennis - Jul 2005, Rebuilding lives in Cuba's Granma province after Hurricane ...
		The school originally housed over 500 people—overall, 56,000 people were evacuated in the province.
		He is the liaison person for religious matters who accompanied a delegation of the Cuban Council of Churches (CCC)—a member of the global alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International—to Granma.
		The damages and casualties were the highest even though the country has experienced several category 4 and 5 hurricanes the last four years," says Juan González, the vice-president of the administrative council of the Province in Granma.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KKEE-6FBRDM?OpenDocument (616 words)

	Destino: Granma, Cuba —Información General y Alojamiento—
		Granma Province 730 km (just over 450 miles) southeast of Havana has many natural tourist attractions.
		The marine terraces at the base of the mountain are the best-defined and -preserved in the world.
		Granma Province-especially the city of Bayamo-has been the scene of many key events in Cuban history and culture, from Cuba's wars of independence in the 19th century to the war of liberation waged in the late 1950s, which wound up with the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959.
	www.cubanparadises.com /destinos/granma.asp?idioma=eng (261 words)

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