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Holguin receives the condition of Nation…

The slogan "To the Homeland and my culture! we put heart" was ratified in the national ceremony for the 46th anniversary of the foundation of the National Union of Culture...

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Anniversary 97th of Fidel's birth rememb…

The 97th anniversary of the birthday of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, was celebrated this August 13 in Biran, the land where the symbol and...

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Collateral awards at Gibara Film Festiva…

On the last day of the Gibara International Film Festival, an exchange between actors and participants in the event was held at the local Casa de la Cultura, with the...

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Awards ceremony at Gibara International …

The awards gala of Gibara International Film Festival (2023) took place on the night of Saturday, August 5th, at Jibá movie-theater, a ceremony that closed the event, in which actor...

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Gibara Film Festival takes off high on o…

Gibara International Film Festival, whose 17th edition was attended by high-ranking political, governmental and art world authorities, got off to a great start on August 1rst.

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We can turn setbacks into victories, say…

Communist Party First Secretary and Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez said Wednesday n Santiago de Cuba that setbacks can be turned into victories, as he closed the commemoration of the...

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In Holguin a July 26 with actions for pe…

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The University of Medical Sciences of Holguin (UCMHo) held this Friday an emotional graduation ceremony an emotional graduation ceremony of 19 Doctors of Medicine from various from various geographic areas...

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In Holguín, the revolutionary seed was sown for posterity, in the land of Birán where the Castro Ruz family bequeathed its magnificent fruits: Fidel and Raúl, indisputable mentors of Cuban history.

But our history begins much earlier: October 28, 1492. On that date, through Bariay, the place that hosts our geography, Admiral Christopher Columbus arrived in Cuba, symbol of the meeting of two cultures. The Bariay Park, whose sculptural work was developed by the artist Caridad Ramos for the fifth centenary of this event, was declared a National Monument.

Already in the 16th century, on April 4, 1545, Captain Francisco García Holguín arrived from the Yayal to Cayo el Llano and founded the Hato. That same day but of 1720 that territory acquires the name of San Isidoro de Holguín, in honor to its patron, the archbishop of Seville and as it was natural, to its first owner. It is not until January 18, 1752 that it really begins to be urbanized, when it receives the title of city, for little by little to become important economic and cultural center of the Cuban east.

This land contributed 18 generals to the Wars of Independence. They stand out among them, Julio Grave de Peralta, who led 120 holguineros in the uprising in arms of October 14, 1868 in Guayacán del Naranjo, after the uprising in the Demajagua Sugar Mill, led by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.

Also outstanding is the figure of Calixto García, leader of the Chiquita War and who played an important role during the Spanish-Cuban-North American War. Several squares and institutions of the town have taken his name in his honor, such as the central park of the provincial capital and the baseball stadium.

During the decade of the 30's of the XX century a revolutionary boom is manifested. Proof of this is the creation of the Cuban Communist Party by Felipe Fuentes in 1931 and the revolutionary work developed by Antonio Guitera who had a center of operations of the Young Cuba in Holguín.

In our city, the symbol of orthodoxy, "the broom", was born, with which the ills of authentic governments would be swept away, in the 1940s.

Between 1955 and 1956 the 26 de Julio movement was founded in our province. Between 1955 and 1956 the July 26th movement was founded in our province. The henchmen of the dictatorship in bloody repression assassinated 23 Holguin revolutionaries between December 23rd and 26th, 1957, an event known in our history as the Bloody Easter.

In the eastern zone of our territory, the forces of the II Eastern Frank País Front, led by Raúl Castro and created in 1958, operated.

General characteristics of the territory

Holguín is the third most populated province in Cuba, after Havana and Santiago de Cuba. The population of Holguín amounts to 1 035 072 inhabitants (50.43% men and 49.57% women), which represents 9.3% of the Cuban population, with a density of 112.6 inhabitants/km². 66.1% live in urban areas and 33.9% in rural areas.

Life expectancy

79.8 years for both sexes.

Annual growth rate

1,1 x 1000 habit.

Political-administrative division

The territory is made up of 14 municipalities, in which 1103 population settlements are located, 45 of them urban.

Main Natural Resources

Agricultural and forestry potentials, mineral deposits of nickel, refractory chrome, manganese, iron, metallic chrome, zeolite, feldspar and different materials used in construction

Economic Activities

It is a province of agro-industrial development and constitutes the third pole of tourist attraction in the country.

The economy is supported by six priority sectors: tourism, the sugar industry, the iron and steel industry, the agricultural sector, nickel production and energy generation.

Industrial Activity

In the branch of non-electric machinery, it has the Factories of Combined Sugarcane, Agricultural Implements; mechanical productions of Nickel, cutting elements, plastic hoses, among others.

The sugar industry has 5 sugar mills which are concentrated mainly in the western half of the country.

There is also a thermoelectric plant, other important industrial productions such as textile spinning, footwear, clothing, cigars and tobacco, crafts, processed meats, milk, corn, canned fruits and vegetables, beer, soft drinks, sorbets, cookies, shaped products derived from fish and other seafood.

Agricultural Activity

The province has a total land area of 921,572 ha, of which 488,098 ha are agricultural. Its diversity in crops or breeding is variable, taking into account the hydrographic potential and soil quality. We work to improve agricultural and livestock processes and mechanization, seeking productive reserves, with the aim of producing quality and efficiency in a sustainable manner.

For the production of vegetables and fresh vegetables, we apply the technology of protected, organoponic crops and sowings with technology (irrigation) that ensure the demand of the population, social consumption and tourism.

In the substitution of imports has been the presence of corn, beans, beef, milk and lumber. Exportable items include honey, charcoal and tobacco.

Development

The territory has a wide, diverse and annually updated portfolio of opportunities, in correspondence with the approval of the new Foreign Investment Law, which constitutes an important tool to concretize the sectorial policies, approved by the Cuban government, through businesses with foreign capital. Being the activities of highest priority:

Those that generate productive chains.
Those that transfer technology, including management techniques.
Those aimed at agricultural production.
Those that develop our industrial infrastructure
Those aimed at the production of mining.
Those that propitiate the development of the agro-alimentary industry.
To promote tourism, including health tourism
That they are energy generators, especially through renewable sources.

From the Hato de Holguin to the Cuban City of the Parks

Holguin is one of the most beautiful Cuban cities which had belonged to the former province of Oriente until 1976. That year a political division took place in the country from which emerged new provinces and capital cities, among them Holguin.

Holguin, located about eight hundred kilometers east of Havana, has been historically called ¨Ciudad de los Parques¨ (City of the Parks), but lately in order to avoid been mistaken by the Colombian city of Bucaramanga, also baptized that way, it was changed into the Cuban City of the Parks.

Holguin, a city with large corridors and tile roofs with reservoirs to collect rain water, has solid and straight streets. Its parks (squares) are gorgeous lungs of the city’s identity for the exquisite and faithful conservation of the colonial architectonic structure.

There are many parks in Holguin for natives and visitors have fun in their spare time, and the Calixto Garcia the biggest of all.

Naming that park after Calixto is an everlasting homage to the noble Cuban hero born in Holguin and who ranked Lieutenant General of the Mambi Cuban rebel army, who took part in the three wars for the national independence from Spanish colonial rule.

A few meters away from the park is located the most emblematic building in the city: La Periquera, an old house that once completed belonged to Spaniard Don Francisco Rondan.

For over a century the building was also the official home of the local government. Today La Periquera is seen as the most important place in town.
The oldest parks in Holguin originated from a system of plazas in town, as the popularly named ¨De las Flores¨ (The Flowers Park), ¨Marti¨, or the ¨San Jose¨, each of them endowed with their corresponding charms and unique style.

Outside the city’s downtown one can find a good deal of parks, as those located in the neighborhoods of Pueblo Nuevo, Vista Alegre and Peralta.

One thing that stands out about the parks of Holguin city is their location over the level of the streets, that’s why, to reach at them you have to have to walk up stairs. They say that such a situation comes from the time the city was often flooded by the spring rains.
Such things have been the concern of researchers who have studied the origin and all about the system of plazas which are part and parcel of the history of Holguin, which started in 1545.

More than 470 years have lapsed since the Spanish conquistador Don Garcia Holguin decided to settle down in the lands granted for his participation in the conquest of Mexico, and passed by the town hall of Bayamo, thus giving birth to the Hato de Holguin (cattle-ranch), the seed that grew till turning into one of the biggest Cuban cities today.

This is our history, as depicted in the huge mural ¨Origenes¨ (Origins), across from the city’s Cathedral and Las Flores Park.
But today’s history, for a city like Holguin, cannot be taken into the biggest of the known murals... and its inviting and always shining parks with their special touch... and its about half a million inhabitants, in addition to the daily visitors... with virtues and faults, with its every day renovating work at the expense of the sweat shed and the huge sense of belonging.

That is Holguin... the City we love.

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