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La Demajagua is located in the northwestern area of the island, nearby the road from Nueva Gerona to Siguanea Airport, and close to the lakes Presa Cristal and Presa Vietnam Heroico. It is 20 km far from Nueva Gerona , 30 from Santa Fe and 14 from its closest beach, Playa Buenavista , by the Gulf of Batabanó .
La Demajagua is the official Cuban newspaper of the provincial committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Granma Province.It is published in Spanish and English. It was named after the homonym sugar mill, near Manzanillo, in which Carlos Manuel de Céspedes issued his cry of independence, the "10th of October Manifesto", in 1868.
Demajagua or La Demajagua may refer to: Places. Demajagua, a barrio in the municipality of Fajardo, Puerto Rico; La Demajagua, Isle of Youth, a village in the Isle of Youth, Cuba; La Demajagua (memorial), a historical memorial related to the Ten Years' War near Manzanillo, Cuba; Other. La Demajagua (newspaper), a Cuban newspaper
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Céspedes was a landowner and lawyer in eastern Cuba, near Bayamo, who purchased La Demajagua, an estate with a sugar plantation, in 1844 after returning from Spain. On 10 October 1868, he made the Cry of Yara (Spanish: Grito de Yara), declaring Cuban independence, which began the Ten Years' War.
The signaling of the Yara uprising occurred near Manzanillo in the eastern province of Oriente, at the sugar plantation and mill of La Demajagua. On October 10, 1868, the revolutionary proclamation of Cuba's independence known as the Cry of Yara (Spanish: El Grito de Yara) was issued by Cuban revolutionary and plantation owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes.
La Demajagua memorial, Manzanillo, Cuba. In Cuba, on 10 October 1868, the slave bell at the La Demajagua sugar mill, in Manzanillo, was rung by the mill's owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes to called assemble the people he enslaved to tell them that they are free and to invite them to join the fight for independence from Spain.
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