A bay and city in southeastern Cuba, site of a U.S. naval base and detention facility.
From Taíno language, possibly meaning 'land between the rivers'. The indigenous name was preserved through Spanish colonization and later American presence.
Guantanamo Bay represents one of the most unusual territorial arrangements in modern geopolitics—a permanent U.S. lease on Cuban soil that has persisted through revolution, embargo, and decades of hostile relations between the two nations.
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