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Banes is a municipality an ceety in the Holguín Province o Cuba.
The name comes frae the inhabitants Taino leid wird Bani, meanin "glen".[4]
In 2004, the municipality o Banes haed a population o 81,274.[3] Wi a total aurie o 781 km2 (302 sq mi),[2] it haes a population density o 104.1 /km2 (270 /sq mi).
The municipality is dividit intae the barrios o Angeles, Berros, Cañadón, Durruthy, Este, Flores, Macabi, Mulas, nuevo Banes ,Oeste, Retrete, Río Seco, Samá (includes Guardalavaca), Marcané, Veguitas an Yaguajay.[1]
Fulgencio Batista wis born in the ceety o Banes.
Hurricane Ike made landfaw here as a Category 4 hurricane on the fore-nicht o September 7, 2008, causin great losses o property.
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