{"id":17679,"date":"2026-10-08T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=17679"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T16:16:05","slug":"guantanamo-to-establish-its-own-science-and-technology-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/guantanamo-to-establish-its-own-science-and-technology-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Guant\u00e1namo to Establish Its Own Science and Technology Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1517 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/parque-nacional-a-humbolt-p-1024x489.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/parque-nacional-a-humbolt-p-1024x489.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/parque-nacional-a-humbolt-p-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/parque-nacional-a-humbolt-p-768x367.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/parque-nacional-a-humbolt-p-1536x733.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/parque-nacional-a-humbolt-p.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>Guantanamo.- The \u201cEntre R\u00edos\u201d Science and Technology Park in Guant\u00e1namo will promote the sustainable use of the province\u2019s rich biodiversity and implement an intellectual property and bioeconomy management model adapted to mountainous and coastal ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Government officials, business leaders, and members of the local scientific community are working to establish a Science and Technology Park (STP)\u2014a new type of commercial entity intended to drive economic and social development in Cuba\u2019s easternmost and most mountainous province.<\/p>\n<p>The project would place Guant\u00e1namo alongside Havana, Matanzas, Villa Clara, and Holgu\u00edn, provinces that have already established their own science and technology parks. However, Guant\u00e1namo\u2019s park would be unique in Cuba, focusing specifically on the sustainable use of its extensive forest biodiversity and non-timber forest resources.<\/p>\n<p>Named \u201cEntre R\u00edos,\u201d or \u201cBetween Rivers,\u201d the Guant\u00e1namo STP aims to promote the creation of technology-based enterprises, economic diversification, and production linkages that generate new services.<\/p>\n<p>The park will operate under a self-financing model, allowing it to generate foreign-currency revenues through projects focused on exporting scientific and technological services, as well as high-value-added bioproducts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntre R\u00edos\u201d will implement an intellectual property and bioeconomy management model tailored to mountainous and coastal ecosystems. It will draw on the province\u2019s vast forest reserve, which covers more than 350,000 hectares, and on the exceptional biodiversity that distinguishes Guant\u00e1namo from the rest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>The province has 23 protected areas, including Alejandro de Humboldt National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the largest biodiversity reserve in the insular Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>This status highlights the importance of establishing a science and technology park capable of supporting the conservation and sustainable use of these natural assets, while contributing to regional development and improving the population\u2019s quality of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo.- The \u201cEntre R\u00edos\u201d Science and Technology Park in Guant\u00e1namo will promote the sustainable use of the province\u2019s rich biodiversity and implement an intellectual property and bioeconomy management model adapted to mountainous and coastal ecosystems. Government officials, business leaders, and members of the local scientific community are working to establish a Science and Technology Park [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guantanamo","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17680,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17679\/revisions\/17680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}