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The eastern side of Cuba The eastern end of the island, traditionally known as Oriente, is now divided into five provinces: Guantánamo, Santiago de Cuba, Granma, HolguIn and Las Tunas. Oriente is where Cuba’s colonization by the Spanish began. Columbus landed somewhere near Guardalavaca, now second only to Varadero as the island’s most popular beach resort. Baracoa and Bayamo were the first towns to be settled, and Santiago de Cuba was the country’s first real capital, before Havana, and is still its greatest cultural rival. The region has always been a hotbed of rebellion. This was where the Afro-Cuban slaves staged their fiercest revolts, where the wars of independence started, where Fidel Castro led the Revolution from the mountains of the Sierra Maestra. Oriente’s natural beauties include the splendid wilderness of the Sierra Maestra national park, culminating in the island’s tallest peak, Pico Turquino, and, further east, the forests around the Cordillera de La Gran Piedra. Cuba’s longest river, Rio Cauto, rises north of Santiago de Cuba to wind its way west into the Gulf of Guacanayabo.

Contributed by Mauricio Maurette on August 15, 2008, at 2:40 AM UTC.

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