Baracoa, the city where first the sun is born in Cuba, rises high next to the coasts of Santo Domingo as close and capricious entrance to the sea. Well close they are, retadore, green mountainous bulks that served from seat the first natives. It is located to about a 1 200 kilometers of Havana, in the most Eastern zone of the country, exactly to the northwest of Guantánamo, present capital of the province of the same name and also it limits with the mining municipality of Moa, locality that belongs to Holguín. It has an extension of 921,2 kilometers square and is the second locality more populated with the guantanamero territory.

Like faithful guardian of the city, National Monument, is elevated the Castle, old strength turned the one of its tourist attractions that allow from their viewpoint to appreciate good part of the surroundings, as well as bay and the called good anvil, capricious mountainous elevation that by work of the nature resembles that instrument.

The Matachín, another strength that deceives the years, constitutes at the present time a museum where is a good part of the millenarian history that surrounds to the region. Cosy and very near the airport is the hotel I carry Santo. To meters of the place Cristóbal anchored Columbus in its first trip to America and was made an impression by everything what their eyes appreciated in that first contact between two different cultures affluent. The Russian, construction arisen in first half of the last century, is another one of the hotels destined to the tourism. Small, but comfortable and characterized by the treatment of its employees, they do of installation one of the favourites.

The inexorable step of the time has allowed an accelerated development. The municipality has become zone of fishing par excellence. Who practice the diving has the privilege to enter itself in the handbag of their bay and from observing rest of galleons and ships there that sleep in the mysterious submarine world without nobody can take its secrets to him.