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.
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“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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