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In the News (Thu 24 Jul 08)

  
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As a result of the engagem ents at Leyte Gulf, the Japanese navy was no longer able to mount any serious offensive threat.
Mississippi continued to support the operations at Leyte Gulf until 16 November, when she steamed to the Admiralty Islands.
On 6 January 1945 she began bombar ding in Lingayen Gulf.
www.hazegray.org /danfs/battlesh/bb41.htm   (896 words)

  
 IASI November 1999 Panama Meeting Abstracts - First Author Initial "R"
The southwestern shelf (Gulf of Batabano) is dominated primarily by seagrasses and reefs (88%) and some estuarine/littoral (12%) habitats.
The southeastern shelf (Ana Maria and Guacanayabo Gulf) is dominated by estuarine/littoral habitat consisting mostly of muddy sediments of terrestrial origin.
In the Casilda area (Gulf of Ana Maria), significant rainfall from hurricanes and other storm events increased runoff causing a decrease in the quality and quantity of habitat.
www.rsmas.miami.edu /groups/IASI/IASI99alf18.htm   (428 words)

  
 Battleships USS Mississippi BB-41
Mississippi (BB-41) was laid down 5 April 1915 by Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Newport News, Va.; launched 25 January 1917; sponsored by Miss Camelle McBeath; and commissioned 18 December 1917, Capt. J.
Following exercises off Virginia,Mississippi steamed 22 March 1918 for training in the Gulf of Guacanayabo, Cuba.
As a result of the engagements at Leyte Gulf, the Japanese navy was no longer able to mount any serious offensive threat.
www.multied.com /navy/battle/mississippi2.html   (874 words)

  
 Ramsar Sites Database
The wetland is essential for the ecological balance of the Guacanayobo Gulf.
This wetland constitutes an important feeding source, as well as a hatching and growth area for fish.
It is considered a major contributor to the productiveness (fisheries) of the Gulf of Guacanayabo, where the Río Cauto flows out to the sea.
www.wetlands.org /RSIS/_COP9Directory/Directory/6CU005.html   (907 words)

  
 DD-33   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Following three months of training at Guantanamo Bay and in the Gulf of Mexico, the torpedo boat destroyer returned north in April and entered Boston harbor on the 21st.
On 2 January 1913, the warship headed south once more for three months of tactical exercises and gunnery drills out of Guantanamo Bay and in the Gulf of Guacanayabo.
She returned to Boston on 14 April and spent the remainder of 1913 in operations off the coast between Boston and Norfolk, Va.
members.tripod.com /BIW_History/shiphistory/hull54.html   (1249 words)

  
 AHA Information: Frederic Wakeman, Jr. Presidential Address (1992)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
After Columbus turned south from the Gulf of Guacanayabo in strong winds and sailed away from Cuba under bare poles to Jamaica, he reached what he called Santa Gloria and the English later called St. Ann’s Bay to spend the night on May 5, 1494.
As they came upon the shoals from the deep blue of the gulf, the water at first was clear as crystal, but suddenly turned an opaque green; then after a few miles went milk-white, and finally turned fl as ink.
Part of the gulf has a bottom of fine white marl which becomes so roiled by the waves that it mixes with the water right up to the surface, looking, as Peter Martyr said, as if flour had been dredged into the sea.
www.historians.org /info/AHA_History/fwakeman.htm   (7865 words)

  
 CNN - Crocodiles comfortable in Cuba - August 14, 1998
MONTE CABANIGUAN WILDLIFE REFUGE, Cuba (CNN) -- Illegal hunting and declining habitat have caused the number of American crocodiles to decline from Florida to Peru.
But there is one place where the crocodiles are not endangered -- indeed, they are said to be thriving -- and that is along the Gulf of Guacanayabo in eastern Cuba.
They live along a remote coastline of marshes and lagoons that are not easy to reach, and they are protected by a wildlife refuge at the mouth of the Jobabo River.
www.cnn.com /TECH/science/9808/14/cuba.crocs/index.html   (437 words)

  
 Cuba on Two Wheels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Turning inland at Pilon, we climbed a steep, miles-long pass before plunging through sugar cane fields toward the Gulf of Guacanayabo.
I paused in the little town of Media Luna to chat with the locals, as my fiancee rode ahead with the rest of the group toward Manzanillo.
I caught the tour group at the lunch stop, and late that afternoon, as a brisk wind swept in from Guacanayabo Bay, we descended into Manzanillo, past dozens of children flying homemade kites.
www.ibike.org /cuba/wp   (2648 words)

  
 Islazul Guacanayabo, Granma, Cuba
The Guacanayabo Hotel awaits you here, providing a wonderful view of the sea and of a city dancing son at the rhythm of its famous organ.
A wide gamut of options include a trip to Cayo Perla, right in the Guanayabo Gulf; hiking will take you to one of Cuba's most beautiful regions.
Aqui le aguarda el hotel Guacanayabo, desde donde se contempla un hermoso panorama del mar y la ciudad del famoso organo, con el que se sigue bailando el son.
www.cuba.tc /CuGranma_Islazul__Guacanayabo.htm   (338 words)

  
 FROM CUBA / Environmental Contamination In Southern Coast Of Las Tunas / FAPDH - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
CIEGO DE AVILA, July 4 (Juan Carlos González Leyva and Pedro Faxas Galindo, FAPDH) – The waters of the Gulf of Guacanayabo, off the southern coast of Las Tunas province, are suffering serious damage due to the effluents from the "Jesús Menéndez" sugar mill.
The mill, one of Cuba’s largest, can process up to 125,000 hundredweight of sugar cane a day.
It dumps residual water, sugar cane froth, and various petroleum derivatives into the gulf through the port of Guayabal.
www.cubanet.org /CNews/y00/jul00/06e4.htm   (166 words)

  
 Hospedaje - Autocaravanas
You will drive past Niquero, a town established near the Gulf of Guacanayabo, the largest gulf in Cuba.
You will drive southwest for 10 km to visit an archeological trail, El Guafe, and its ceremonial caves which entrances are protected by stone-carved figures of water deities Atabey, Moinayel and Marohu, and the Lord of the Land of No Return, Maquetaurie Guayaba.
Some 12 km further, on Cuba's easternmost part lies a small fisherman's village, Cabo Cruz, under the Vargas light house that rises proudly as the savior of the seamen who venture into the shallow waters near the Gulf of Guacanayabo or the rough and deep waters in the south.
www.dtcuba.com /eng/motorhome_carrusel.asp   (2548 words)

  
 Spanish in Cuba · Tourism in Cuba
From Santa Lucia it is possible to take excursions to the Cubitas mountain range, where concentrates an exuberant flora of more than 300 species, or to the harbor and industrial city of Nuevitas, the closest urban settlement to the beach.
The Atlantic on the north and the Gulf of Guacanayabo on the south bath the coasts of the Tunas, the Cuban capital of the sculpture.
The tourist can visit the Alexander de Humboldt National Park (placed within the Cuchillos del Toa Biosphere Reserve); the Paso de los Alemanes (Passage of the Germans); the Yumurí river gulf, the Boma and Mata bays, and the attractive landscape that can be seen from the top of the terraces of the La Máquina municipality.
www.spanish-in-cuba.info /ingles/tourism.html   (1869 words)

  
 Smoke Text Product - Satellite Services Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Smoke was very difficult to see across the rest of the Southeast and including the Mississippi Vally due to scattered cloud cover.
Cuba: Numerous fires burning east of the capital Havana are producing an area of dense smoke moving northeast into the Straits of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
Fires burning north of the Gulf of Guacanayabo are emitting a large area of dense smoke moving southwest across the gulf.
www.ssd.noaa.gov /PS/FIRE/DATA/SMOKE/2006C120218.html   (208 words)

  
 Shuttle images of CUBA
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GULF OF GUACANAYABO: • • • • • • • • • • • • •
rove.to /cuba   (940 words)

  
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Some have been arrested, while others have been summoned to the State Security offices.
Among them: Leonardo Santana Montes, Enrique Dieguez Segura, Odelia Aguilar Mora, Pascual Escalona Naranjo, Nelson Tamargo, (inaudible), all of them members of the Gulf of Guacanayabo Pro Human Rights Movement.
They have been subjected to heavyhanded interrogation sessions at the hands of the authorities, who used coercive strategies, flmail, and threats.
www.cubafreepress.org /art/apic970723g.html   (833 words)

  
 USA CUBA TRAVEL: A Destination & Travel Guide to Cuba
Admiral Columbus named Rio de Mares is the most outstanding architectural complex of the Holguin region.
Manzanillo, disputed by pirates and corsairs, opens up to the Gulf of Guacanayabo, while in the background we discover the simple nature of its residents and the spell of its green landscape.
Nueva Gerona, the main city on the Isle of Youth, throbs with the comings and goings between its port and the Big Island.
www.usacubatravel.com /cubamarinecities.htm   (307 words)

  
 Cuban marine cities
Gibara, just beside the bay that the Great Admiral Cristofolo Colombo named Rio de Mares (River of Seas), with its fortifications, is the most outstanding architectural complex of the Holguin region.
Manzanillo, disputed by pirates and corsairs –and also present in Cuba’s first literary monument, Espejo de Paciencia, by Camaguey-born Silvestre de Balboa-, opens up to Gulf of Guacanayabo wwith the simple nature of its residents and the spell of its green landscape in the background.
Nueva Gerona, the main city in the Island of Youth (formely Isle of Pines), throbs with the comings and goings between its port and the Island of Cuba.
www.hicuba.com /eng/articles/marine-cities.htm   (531 words)

  
 Public Address | Heat
Here's a theory, a uniquely Auckland definition of poverty: if you live in Auckland and you can get out on the gulf, you are rich.
Tragedy can't be measured by a body count, of course, but in the context of the Iran/Iraq and the Holocaust the death of 3,000 seems almost insignificant.
But for the little fishing village of Santa Cruz del Sur, on the Gulf of Guacanayabo in Cuba, the 9/11 1932 tidal wave that washed away that many is remembered.
www.publicaddress.net /default,828.sm   (3877 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Manzanillo Keys, Granma prov., Cuba, Caribbean (gulf) - Facts and Information
AllRefer.com - Manzanillo Keys, Granma prov., Cuba, Caribbean (gulf) - Facts and Information
Manzanillo Keys (mahn-zah-NEE-yo), tiny coral reefs in the Gulf of Guacanayabo, Granma prov., SE Cuba, just outside Manzanillo, the harbor of which they protect; 20°23'N 77°11'W. Covered by mangroves.
Capital city or county seat is shown by the symbol
reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/M/M02647-manzanillo-keys.html   (136 words)

  
 Destino: Las Tunas, Cuba —Información General y Alojamiento—
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The northern (Atlantic Ocean) and southern (Gulf of Guacanayabo) coasts of Las Tunas Province have more than 30 virgin beaches, only one of which: Covarrubias has been opened to international tourism so far.
Every year, Las Tunas-which is considered the sculpture capital of Cuba-sponsors the most important and attractive rural festivity in the country: the Meeting on "El Cucalambé." The coastal city of Puerto Padre is yet another of its attractions.
www.cubanparadises.com /destinos/lastunas.asp?idioma=eng   (215 words)

  
 Cuban Art - Arte de Cuba
For me it's like breathing, I couldn't stop painting no matter what."
Manzanillo has an eternal dialogue with the Gulf of Guacanayabo, where the island opens up like a crocodile's jaws.
Indeed, given its long and narrow shape, Cuba is often referred to as a crocodile.
www.cubanart.org /english/beltran_interview.htm   (3016 words)

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