The New International Encyclopædia/Guanabacoa

GUANABACOA, gwä′nȧ-Bȧ-kō′ȧ. A town of Cuba, situated a few miles east of Havana, on the Havana-Matanzas Railway line (Map: Cuba, C 3). It is built chiefly on a range of hills, and is surrounded by groves of trees, watered by numerous springs. It has a theatre, a lyceum, and a hospital. It was formerly an ancient Indian town, but the Indians were supplanted by Spaniards before the end of the sixteenth century. It received its town charter on August 14, 1743. In 1762 it was sacked by the English. Population, in 1899, 20,080.