Boquerón
Boquerón is a Cuban village and consejo popular of the municipality of Caimanera, in the Province of Guantánamo. Located near Guantánamo Bay, it is also known as Mártires de la Frontera, Spanish for "Martyrs of the Border".| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: William John Gauthier, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Guantánamo, Cuba
- Also known as: “Boqueron”, “Boquerón, Cuba”, “Camina Blanca”, and “Héroes de la Frontera”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Guantánamo Bay.
Guantánamo Bay
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Guantánamo Bay is a bay at the southeast end of the island of Cuba. The area surrounding its southern part hosts a United States Naval Base. The northern part of the bay is under Cuban control.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Caimanera.
Caimanera
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Caimanera is a municipality and town in Guantánamo Province on the south eastern coast of Cuba. It is a fishing village and port built on the west shore of the sheltered Guantánamo Bay, just north of the US naval base and 34 kilometres south of the provincial capital, Guantánamo. Caimanera is situated 4½ km west of Boquerón.
Boquerón
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Caimanera, Guantánamo Province, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
19.98523° or 19° 59′ 7″ northLongitude
-75.10969° or 75° 6′ 35″ westElevation
18 metres (59 feet)Open location code
77F6XVPR+34OpenStreetMap ID
node 1730436150OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Boquerón” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “博克龙”
- Dutch: “Boquerón”
- Georgian: “ბოკერონი”
- Irish: “Boquerón”
- Russian: “Бокерон”
- Spanish: “Boquerón”
- Spanish: “Mártires de la Frontera”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boquerón”. Photo: William John Gauthier, CC BY-SA 2.0.