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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