Nipe Bay is a bay on the northern coast of Cuba in Holguín Province in the Oriente region.
In Roman Catholic tradition, Nipe Bay is where the statue of Our Lady of Charity, Patroness of Cuba, was discovered miraculously around 1600.
A naval engagement during the Spanish-American War, the Battle of Nipe Bay, took place in the bay on July 21, 1898.
The Cuban leader Fidel Castro was born near Nipe Bay in 1926.
Famous quotes containing the word bay:
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)