Guanabacoa

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Guanabacoa

Guanabacoa (gwänäbäkōˈä), municipality (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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The mural, located at West 71st Street and Columbus Avenue, was once the entrance of Victor's Cafe, a restaurant owned by Guanabacoa, Cuba, native Victor del Corral.
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On 14 November 1767 Juan Alonso Cavale, the last known Timucuan Indian to have Florida-born Timucuan parents, died in Guanabacoa, Cuba. In 1763 Cavale and eighty-eight native Florida Indians entered voluntary exile in Cuba, retreating there with the former Spanish residents when the Florida colony was turned over to the British crown.
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