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GUANABACOA (an See also:Indian name meaning " site of the See also:waters ") , a See also:town of See also:Cuba, in See also:Havana See also:province, about 6 m. E. of Havana. Pop. (1907) 14,368. Guanabacoa is served by railway to Havana, with which it is connected by the See also:Regla See also:ferry across the See also:bay. It is picturesquely situated amid See also:woods, on high hills which furnish a See also:fine view. There are medicinal springs in the town, and deposits of liquid See also:bitumen in the neighbouring hills. The town is essentially a See also:residence suburb of the See also:capital, and has some rather See also:pretty streets and squares and some old and interesting churches (including Nuestra Senora de la See also:Asuncion, 1714-1721). Just outside the See also:city is the See also:church of See also:Potosi with a famous " wonder-working " See also:shrine and See also:image. An Indian See also:pueblo of the same name existed here before 1555, and a church was established in 1576. Already at the end of the, r 7th See also:century Guanabacoa was the fashionable summer residence of Havana. It enjoyed its greatest popularity in this respect from the end of the 18th to the See also:middle of the 19th century.

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villa with an See also:ayuntamiento (city See also:council) in 1743. Ir, 1762 its fort, the Little Morro, on the N. See also:shore near Cojimar (a bathing See also:beach, where the See also:Key See also:West See also:cable now lands), was taken by the See also:English.

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