Baracoa

Baracoa, nicknamed La Ciudad Primera, is Cuba's easternmost and oldest city. It is popular among tourists for its indigenous-inflected unique local culture, distinctive local cuisine, natural rainforest surroundings, and its chocolate.
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  • City with 43,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 100 metres (328 feet)
  • Description: city in Cuba
  • Established: August 15, 1511
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Co-Cathedral of Baracoa and Cruz de la Parra.
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Baracoa

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Latitude
20.3478° or 20° 20′ 52″ north
Longitude
-74.4969° or 74° 29′ 49″ west
Open location code
77G78GX3+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259846377
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3567831
Wiki­data ID
Q94775

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Baracoa” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Baracoa”
  • Bulgarian: “Баракоа”
  • Bulgarian: “Баракуа”
  • Catalan: “Baracoa”
  • Cebuano: “Baracoa”
  • Chinese: “巴拉科阿”
  • Czech: “Baracoa”
  • Dutch: “Baracoa”
  • Esperanto: “Baracoa”
  • French: “Baracoa”
  • French: “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa”
  • Galician: “Baracoa”
  • Georgian: “ბარაკოა”
  • German: “Baracoa”
  • Hausa: “Baracoa”
  • Hebrew: “ברקואה”
  • Hungarian: “Baracoa”
  • Indonesian: “Baracoa”
  • Irish: “Baracoa”
  • Italian: “Baracoa”
  • Japanese: “バラコア”
  • Korean: “바라코아”
  • Lithuanian: “Barakoa”
  • Nauru: “Baracoa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baracoa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baracoa”
  • Ossetian: “Баракоа”
  • Persian: “باراکوآ”
  • Polish: “Baracoa”
  • Portuguese: “Baracoa”
  • Romanian: “Baracoa”
  • Russian: “Асунсьон-де-Баракоа”
  • Russian: “Баракоа”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baracoa”
  • Serbian: “Baracoa”
  • Serbian: “Barakoa”
  • Serbian: “Баракоа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Baracoa”
  • Silesian: “Baracoa”
  • Spanish: “Baracoa”
  • Spanish: “Nuestra Señora de la Asunción de Baracoa”
  • Spanish: “Villa de Baracoa”
  • Swedish: “Baracoa”
  • Swedish: “Municipio de Baracoa”
  • Ukrainian: “Баракоа”
  • Urdu: “باراکوا”
  • Uzbek: “Baracoa”
  • Vietnamese: “Baracoa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baracoa”
  • Welsh: “Baracoa”

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