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Cuba, Holguín Province

Gibara banana and sugar port

Tidal foreshore Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1820s-1930s Spanish colonial glass, all off limits.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Walled little port of the 1800s serving Holguin's sugar and banana districts, bypassed by the railway and preserved with its merchant quarter intact.

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