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Guanabacoa

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Guanabacoa (gwänäbäkō`ä), city (1986 est. pop. 95,500), Ciudad de la Habana prov., W Cuba, a residential and commercial suburb of Havana. Numerous mineral springs are located near Guanabacoa, whose Native American name means "place of waters." The city was founded in 1555 on the site of a Native American settlement.


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His last initiative was in September 2005, when the group replaced four playgrounds in the Havana suburbs of Cotorro, San Agustin, Arroyo Naranjo and Guanabacoa.
Adolfo Ham, pastor at Guanabacoa (Land of Many Waters) outside Havana, also volunteers at an ecumenical lay training institute in Havana.
As a composer, he was really one of the greats of the twentieth century " While his Cuban passport records the birth of Ernesto Sixto de la Asuncion Lecuona y Casado as August 6, 1895, in the Havana suburb of Guanabacoa, his tombstone in Hawthorn, New York, declares the date as August 7, 1896, the birthday he observed throughout his sixty-seven years, as do his descendants to this day.
 
 
 
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