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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Places of Interest

Highlights include Co-Cathedral of Baracoa.

Church
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 .

Baracoa

Latitude
20.3478° or 20° 20′ 52″ north
Longitude
-74.4969° or 74° 29′ 49″ west
Population
43,100
Elevation
163 metres (535 feet)
Open location code
77G78GX3+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259846377
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3567831
Wiki­data 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.