The province takes its name from the yacht Granma, used by Che Guevara and Fidel Castro to land in Cuba with 82 guerrillas on December 2, 1956; until 1976 the area formed part of the larger Oriente Province. The American who sold the guerillas the secondhand yacht in Mexico apparently had named it "Granma" ("Granma", more usually "Grandma", is an affectionate term for a grandmother) after his grandmother.[3]
The name of the vessel became an icon for Cuban communism.
At the 2018 parliamentary election, Granma was the province with the highest proportion of votes recorded for the full list.[4]
On 12 April 2020, Veguitas, a town in Gramna Province, recorded a temperature of 39.7 °C (103.5 °F). This is the highest temperature to have ever been recorded in Cuba.[5]
Economy
The majority of the revenue comes from coffee grown in the forested and mountainous regions of the province. During the coffee harvest soldiers may set up roadblocks to ensure the delivery of the coffee to the government and not to the black market.[citation needed]
Source: Population from 2004 Census.[6]Area from 1976 municipal re-distribution.[7]
Demographics
In 2004, the province of Granma had a population of 829,333.[6] With a total area of 8,375.49 km2 (3,233.79 sq mi),[8] the province had a population density of 99.0/km2 (256/sq mi).
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