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Sierra Maestra

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Sierra Maestra (syā`rä mäā`strä), rugged mountain range, SE Cuba, rising abruptly from the coast. Consisting of connecting ranges with local names, the Sierra Maestra is the highest system of Cuba. It is rich in minerals, especially copper, manganese, chromium, and iron. Pico Turquino (6,560 ft/1,999 m) is the highest point. In the 1950s Fidel Castro had his base of operations in the mountains.


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Discussing Anthony DePalma's recent book The Man Who Invented Fidel, Garvin explains that the press's romance with Castro began even before he took power, when New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews interviewed him at a guerilla camp in the Sierra Maestra mountains.
The islands are an outcropping of the Cayman Ridge, a submarine mountain range that extends west from the Sierra Maestra mountain range in Cuba.
Most rebels were killed, but Castro, Guevara, and the other survivors retreated to the Sierra Maestra in eastern Cuba.
 
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