Sierra Maestra Mountain Range, Santiago de Cuba. Cuba

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The Sierra Maestra Mountain Range in the southeast region of Cuba in the counties of Granma and Santiago de Cuba. The highest elevation is the Pico Turquino with 1.974 meters above the sea level, which is located in Sierra heart.
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This mountain constitutes the biggest mountain range in the country with form of a green bastion that skirts the southeast coast of Cuba from Cabo Cruz until the Punta de Maisí. She has around 250 km long by 60 km wide.

The half height is between 300 and 1500 meters above the sea level, also Pico Cuba stand out because has 1872 meters above the sea level and Pico Suecia with 1734 meters above the sea level.

La Sierra Maestra is one of the most majestic natural scenarios in the whole Cuba. She has excellent natural parks as the Pico Turquino, Desembarco del Granma, Santo Domingo-La Sierrita and Marea del Portillo. All this gives the possibility that La Sierra Maestra is a great ecotourism destination in the Island of Cuba.

In 1980 it was declared like national park.

La Sierra Maestra is a place of historical extraordinary value for the Cuban Island. Since the fights that liberated the aboriginal Tainos against the Spanish Colonizer, this lands were the refuge of the black slaves that escaped from their cane plantation’s lots.
Fidel Castro in Sierra Maestra

La Sierra Maestra was also coat of the Rebel Army in the warfare against Batista. In that hill, Fidel Castro led the military actions in the Island, besides other personalities of the Cuba History like Che Guevara, Raúl Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos. Here several brave cubans youths fell on the field of battle as Ciro Redondo García. It was the first and principle scenario of fight in Cuba represented by the Rebel Army.

La Sierra Maestra has a lot of interest natural attractions like La Gran Piedra, a rock of 70 thousand tons located to 1225 meters high. It is about the third bigger rock of the whole world and it is registered in the Guinness Book of Records.

The best Arabic coffee, the variety of more quality in the whole world is cultivated here. La Sierra Maestra plantations allow to obtain a famous coffee which is exported to different regions of the planet.

La Sierra Maestra at the present time has became into a public scenario, meeting point and goal among the young organizations from festivities, meetings and personal decisions putting a lot of effort into the concept "We can makes the Pico Turquino's Summit".

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Sierra Maestra Mountain Range is located in Santiago de Cuba

It limits to the north with the province of Holguín; to the west with Granma; to the south with the Caribbean Sea, and to the east with the province of Guantánamo. The province covers a total area of 6 343 21 , Km². You can get here through Antonio Maceo International Airport, also by road from any other part of Cuba, or by sea ─in this last case, requesting the services from Punta Gorda Marina.

Two particular features characterizes Santiago de Cuba that make it exceptional: its hospitality, with people of happy and relaxed temperament and its rich historical-cultural wealth. Its Caribbean identity is evident in its popular music and in folklore manifestations. It depicts the title of Heroine City of the Republic of Cuba for the role carried out by its inhabitants in the revolutionary struggle during the decade of 1950. Privileged by its historical past, in Santiago de Cuba there are two of the Cuban places distinguished by UNESCO with the title of World Heritage: the San Pedro de la Roca Castle and the ruins of the first French coffee plantations in La Gran Piedra. The Santa Ifigenia cemetery , the 26 of July Historical Museum and the Siboney Farm, are places indissolubly linked to the history of Cuba.

Cayo Granma and Baconao Park (Biosphere Reserve) also part of the attractiveness of this region. As a tourist destination, Santiago de Cuba, combines excellent possibilities for the enjoyment of beaches, city and nature tourism for to the places of interest in those three scenarios.

For those who arrive in Santiago de Cuba, there are diverse lodging options in the city and in its surroundings, linked as much to the sea as to nature. With a variety of categories and levels of comfort, it will always be a guarantee for the visitors looking for harmony and soothing rest. There are other things, among so many, that make people from Santiago proud: to be the birthplace, par excellence, of almost all the musical genres of Cuba, a country where the music is soul and root; also, the carnivals that every month of July take place here, are the most spectacular in the country; as well as their rum, the well-known Fiestas del Fuego and the already traditional Festival of the Caribbean.

The region of Santiago de Cuba has the necessary infrastructure to encourage tourism of events and congresses; it also has in its mountainous and seafaring environment the conditions to develop nature and adventure tourism, trekking, nautical activities, and health tourism. But there is nothing better than walk its undulating and narrow streets loaded with history and music at the same time.

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