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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Co-Cathedral of Baracoa.
Co-Cathedral of Baracoa
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Our Lady of the Assumption Co-Cathedral also called Baracoa Cathedral is a religious building affiliated with the Catholic Church which is located in the town of Baracoa on the island and Caribbean nation of Cuba.
Baracoa
- Type: City with 43,100 residents
- Description: city in Cuba
- Categories: municipality of Cuba and locality
- Location: Guantánamo Province, Eastern Cuba, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
20.3478° or 20° 20′ 52″ northLongitude
-74.4969° or 74° 29′ 49″ westPopulation
43,100Elevation
163 metres (535 feet)Open location code
77G78GX3+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 259846377OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3567831Wikidata ID
Q94775
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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”
- 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”
- 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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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 Wikivoyage page “Baracoa”. Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.