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It is the most extensive and numerous of the four archipelagos that surround the island of Cuba. It is bordered by a wall of corals of about 400 Kilometers in length. It is the second largest coral reef in the world, surpassed only by the Great Barrier Reef. It is among the best places in the Caribbean for eco-tourism and excursions.

It occupies a strip of 465 km along the north central zone of Cuba, between the Peninsula of Hicacos and the Bay of Nuevitas; 270 km belong to the province of Camagüey. It has 75 km2, including the marine waters of the platform, and about 150 km of sandy beaches. The sub-archipelago consists of about 2517 keys and islands, which represents 60 percent of all Cuban land.

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Cuba's third largest province, with an area that represents 8.6% of the total area of the island, counting on 14 municipalities in which are located 1112 population settlements, of them 43 urban.

Although Holguín was traditionally an agricultural region, it is currently one of the main industrial zones of Cuba. Called the nickel land, its production contributes 20% of the country's economic income for exports.

Tourism has achieved remarkable development in recent years. It is considered the third most important tourist attraction in the country. It has many natural attractions and par excellence an incomparable beauty in its fields and beaches.

Geographical limits. To the north: Atlantic Ocean. To the east: Guantánamo Province. To the south: Provinces Santiago de Cuba and Granma. To the west: Las Tunas Province.

Longest river. Mayarí 110 km long 1231 km2 area 15.8 m2 / s of expenditure

The heights of Maniabón, Cauto Plain, Nipe Plain, and the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Mountains predominate. Its hydrography is represented by the Mayari, Gibara, Sagua de Tánamo, Tacajó Rivers and the Gibara, Cacoyugüin, Sabanilla and Gibara Bay, Banes and Nipe reservoirs. Prevailing fersialitic soils red brown ferromagnesial, fersialitic reddish brown, and dark gleyzado plastic.

Capital: Holguin

Municipalities. By virtue of Law No. 1304, Article 13, the Holguín Province, from the former regions of Moa-Sagua-Mayarí, Holguín-Gibara and Banes-Antilla, with 14 municipalities, Municipality head or capital of the province. This province occupies the third place next to Pinar del Río and Matanzas in quantity of municipalities.

Gibara
Rafael Freyre
Banes
Antilla
Báguanos
Holguín
Calixto García
Cacocum
Urbano Noris (Municipio)
Cueto
Mayarí
Frank País
Sagua de Tánamo
Moa

Relevant places

Banes
Centro Histórico de Gibara
Chorro de Maíta
Cayo Bariay
Farallones de Seboruco
Jagüeyes
Faro Lucrecia
Mayarí
Moa y Urbano Noris
Guardalavaca
Loma de la Cruz
Los parques de Holguín
Estero Ciego Playa Esmeralda
Pesquero
Don Lino
Puerto Rico en Banes
Morales y Corinthia
Lugares de interés arqueológico (El Chorro de Maíta de Banes y la Bahía de Nipe)
Conjunto Histórico Birán. Casa Natal de Fidel Castro Ruz, Raúl Castro Ruz y sus hermanos en Birán, Cueto, Holguín Cuba.
Puente Natural Bitirí ubicado en Cueto.

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The Cuban Association of Physical-Motor Limits (ACLIFIM) is a non-profit organization with its own legal personality, founded on March 14, 1980 by a group of people with physical and motor disabilities and is officially recognized as an Association by the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Cuba.

Physical-motor limitations are one of the major disabilities affecting the world's population. In Cuba, the psychosocial study of people with disabilities, carried out nationwide in 2003, under the guidance of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro, revealed that physical-motor limitations are second only to all disabilities, surpassed only by the intellectually deficient carriers.

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One of the main institutions of Cuban higher education in the agricultural field, that immersed in the Battle of Ideas and Universalization of knowledge, in close alliance with the environment and integrated with the national research centers INCA, National Center for Animal Health CENSA and Institute of Animal Science ICA, contributes, through technical scientific activity and university extension, to the sustainable development of Cuban society and in particular the province of Havana, with a marked internationalist vocation, in a cohesive revolutionary environment that its workers and students guarantee with high responsibility and professionalism. It is attached to the Ministry of Higher Education.

Since its creation in 1976, it is part of a Scientific Science Complex integrated to the Ministry of Higher Education. At one time it was identified as the Higher Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Havana (ISCAH); today its protagonists recognize it as the UNAH, but likewise, it is the only one of its kind in the province and the main one in agricultural studies in the country, where the specializations of Mechanization, Agronomy, Veterinary Medicine, Accounting and Finance and Sociocultural Studies are taught.

The Agrarian University of La Habana was founded on September 7, 1976, with the name of Higher Institute of Agricultural Sciences of Havana. It is located at Km. 23 and a half, from the National Highway and 4 Km From the municipality of San José de las Lajas.

It is the oldest of Cuban Agricultural Universities, and its roots are in the University of Havana, in the School of Agricultural Sciences in 5ta de los Molinos, to which belonged the Schools of Agronomy and Veterinary. In 1972, both faculties were transferred to the Finca Guayabal, now the Teaching Unit, due to the need to broaden the horizons of the students, to bring them into direct contact with the environment, besides that the studies of Agronomy were considered as empirical due to the few practice in the field and the country after the triumph of the Revolution required a scientific agriculture.

The territory of San José de las Lajas was chosen because of its agricultural development. The Institute of Animal Science, the National Center for Animal Health and the National Institute of Agricultural Science were already in the territory, forming a Scientific Teaching Complex for the training of professionals, able to face the new challenges.

Initially there were two careers: Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Agricultural Mechanization.

It is made up of six Faculties:

Agronomy: Plant Biology and Health, Chemistry, Irrigation, Drainage and Soil Science, Agricultural Production
Veterinary Medicine
Mechanization of agricultural production: Industrial, Repair, Exploitation of the Machinery Park, Repair of the Machinery Park, Basic Sciences, Informatics
Social and Humanistic Sciences
Economic Sciences: Group of Theory and Techniques of Direction, Economy and Agricultural Administration, Accounting.
Physical Culture

Attached Institutions

Center of Studies of Higher Agricultural Education
Center for Agricultural Mechanization (CEMA)
Center for Agricultural and Rural Development Studies (CEDAR)

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The economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States against Cuba is the longest in the history of humanity, it is the highest expression of a cruel and inhuman policy, lacking legality and legitimacy and deliberately designed to provoke hunger, diseases and despair in the Cuban population.

The United States Government, far from ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed against the Republic of Cuba, has maintained in force the laws, provisions and practices that support it. Political, administrative and repressive mechanisms have been strengthened for more effective and deliberate implementation.

For successive US administrations, such a policy has been an essential part of its policy of hostility and aggression against the irreducible Cuban people.

The damage done has been uncountable in all sorts of life, the fighting capacity of those born on the rebel Island, has been an impregnable stronghold against the evil intentions of the imperial law.

On December 17, 2014, in a simultaneous locution, the presidents of Cuba, Raul Castro Ruz and Barack Obama of the United States announced the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

US President Barack Obama acknowledged the failure of the policy of economic blockade against Cuba and the need to make a change in this direction.

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It belongs to the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and was founded on February 25, 1972. It is located in the municipality Caimito, Artemisa province.

The idea of creating a place dedicated to the attention of solidarity and friends who would come to know the Cuban reality came from the comrade Fidel Castro Ruz.

It all started when young people from 27 nations came to Cuba. Its objective was to build a basic secondary school in the countryside and 28 homes for workers in Los Naranjos Genetic Plan in less than six months. The idea emerged during a visit of a delegation from the World Federation of Democratic Youth to educational centers in the countryside.

Subsequently, the conditions were created to accommodate the international brigade members who have visited the country for more than 36 years, not only to provide their selfless work contribution but also to exchange with entities of all kinds, thus contributing to the dissemination of the true reality of Cuba and against the blockade imposed on the Island.

It has hosted, among others, the Nordic brigades, "Antonio Maceo" (United States), "Cross of the South" (Australia and New Zealand), "Carlos Roloff" (Poland), "Tupac Amaru" (Peru). He has received groups from several Latin American countries such as Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Santo Domingo and Jamaica. It hosted the 1st and 2nd Latin American and Caribbean Encounter of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba.

On July 30, 1972, Jorge Dimitrov secondary school was concluded, now Camilo Cienfuegos military school, and the 28 homes for workers of Los Naranjos Genetic Plan. Everything was done in less than six months. The center that sheltered the brigadistas was not demolished nor changed the sense that gave rise to it. It became International Camp and kept the name of Julio Antonio Mella, in honor to that initiative that did transcend the value of the voluntary work. It has changed a lot since that February of 1972, but time rejuvenates it, as well as the warmth of its workers and the trace of affection left by its visitors.

Objectives:

• Solidarity with the struggle of the Cuban people to dignify the human race.

• To inform the reality of the Cuban people and the achievements of the Revolution.

• To serve as a link between solidarity groups with Cuba at the national level.

• To motivate systematic and coordinated work among national groups.

• To provide support material for solidarity work.

• To help break the information blockade imposed on Cuba by the big news chains that directly affect the country.

Nowadays

To talk about the International Camp "Julio Antonio Mella" in Caimito, it is necessary to start by informing that are awarded with the banner of National Vanguard, it is necessary to look at all times: the past, the present and the future, to be able to assess the immense value of this center, open wide to the friends of Cuba in the whole world and open to any work that dignifies the human condition.

Since its founding, the International Camp has sheltered more than 55,000 brigadistas from all five continents, people who have come to the Island with the intention of knowing the reality of the country, not the one that appears in the mass media, but the one that pulsates in every street and every house, and almost never occupies space in these multi-million dollar media or occupies them in a lamentable way.

With the help of the hands of those brigadistas (whites, blacks, mestizos, women, children ...), there have been many works of the educational, medical and residential sectors in Caimito, such as the construction of the Los Naranjos community, Doctors’ offices in the municipality and the Rehabilitation Room in Ceiba del Agua; The total repair of Miguel Perera Elementary School in the town of Vereda Nueva and the refurbishment of the Jorge Dimitrov Pre-university Institute (Ceiba 7), works of undeniable weight in the Battle of Ideas, but which are a minimum of what was contributed during 24 Years, by brothers who defend the cause of the revolutionary process anywhere and under any flag.

In addition to the contribution to Cuban construction and citrus fields, there has also been a contribution in foreign exchange for the purchase of medicines, materials and resources, denied by the reactionary forces, and a sustained and fruitful work in their countries of origin, which increases day by day the prestige of the Cuban nation in the eyes of the planet. The camp has become the venue for national events, training plans and congresses of foreign students in Cuba, for which it provides well-recognized accommodation and food services.

the Empire, a space of confrontation and debate to contribute to the liberation of these young people who protected their country from the jaws of terrorism. This work of love, constantly improving, could now fill thousands of beautiful pages in the history of solidarity among men around the world with those of an island that is always open, sincere and cordial.