More than a dozen research works about local history, culture and traditions were presented at the Scientific Event Duaba, a Necessary Landing, sponsored in Baracoa by the Guantanamo Branch of the Cuban Historians Association (UNHIC, in Spanish).
The 21st edition of the event of local history took place within the framework of the 45th Week of Culture of the Cuban First City and the celebrations of the 77th birth anniversary of its historian Alejandro Hartm, who gave a lecture on the aboriginal presence at the dawn of the 21st century and reveled the last research of DNA samples from families that confirms survival of indigenous heritage in Cuba.
The participants also presented investigations on the Mambises army, the 26th of July Movement’s main figures and combative actions, as well as the development of education and the most outstanding Baracoa teachers, whose work is still recognized and valued by their disciples.
In the Casa de la Trova and in the Encanto Cinema, downtown, historians from Santiago de Cuba, Guantánamo and Baracoa also commemorated the 128th anniversary of the landing of the schooner Honor and 120th years of the pilgrimage to the seashore where on April 1, 1895, Antonio Maceo, accompanied by the also Major Generals of the Liberation Army, his brother José and Flor Crombet landed in Duaba Beach, along with 20 other patriots, an expected action by the Cubans to intensify the recently begun Necessary War for independence from Spanish colonialism. ][/bg_col
Baracoa hosted scientific history meetinglapse]The traditional pilgrimage to Duaba Beach is held every April 1st with massive participation of Baracoa pepole
