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GIBARA, or JIBARA

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 927 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GEO-GNU
GIBARA, or JIBARA (once " Punta del Yarey " and " Yarey
de Gibara "), a north-coast city of Oriente Province, Cuba, 8o m. N.W. of Santiago de Cuba. Pop. (1907) 617o.' It is served by railway to the S.S.W., to Holguin and Cacocum (where it connects with the main line between Santiago and Havana), and is a port of
call
  for the American Munson Line. It lies on a circular harbour, about 1 m. in
diameter
 , which, though open to the N., affords
fair
  shelter. At the entrance to the harbour is San Fernando, an old fort (1817), and the city is very quaint in
appearance
 . At the back of the city are three stone-topped hills, Silla, Pan and Tabla, reputed to be those referred to by Columbus in his journal of his first voyage. Enclosing the town is a stone
wall
 , built by the Spaniards as a defence against attack during the rebellion of 1868-1878. Gibara is the port of Holguin. It exports
cedar
 , rnahogany, tobacco, sugar, tortoise-shell, Indian corn, cattle products, coco-nuts and bananas; and is the centre of the
banana
  trade with the United States. Gibara is an old settlement, but it did not rise above the status of a petty
village
  until after 1817; its importance
dates
  from the opening of the port to commerce in 1827.


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