Bejucal

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|map_caption = Bejucal municipality (red) within
Mayabeque Province (yellow) and Cuba

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|subdivision_name1 = Mayabeque

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|established_date = 1874

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|population_total = 28,205

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Bejucal is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1713. It is well known as the terminal station of the first railroad built in Cuba and Latin America in 1837. It also hosts one of the most popular and traditional carnival fest in Cuba: "Charangas de Bejucal". Bejucal has also been known as a telecommunications site, hosting broadcasts of several news and media networks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.short-wave.info/index.php?txsite=Bejucal|title=Short-Wave Radio Frequency Schedule for site Bejucal|access-date=2024-06-07|archive-date=2022-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124115352/https://www.short-wave.info/index.php?txsite=Bejucal|url-status=live}} It hosted Soviet nuclear warheads during the Cuban Missile Crisis.{{Cite book|last=Dobbs|first=Michael|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176951842|title=One minute to midnight : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the brink of nuclear war|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4000-4358-3|edition=1|location=New York|pages=109|oclc=176951842|access-date=2024-06-07|archive-date=2010-01-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111153749/http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/176951842|url-status=live}} Bejucal is also rumored{{Cite web |last=Roush |first=Ty |title=China Denies Cuban Spy Facility Report—Says U.S. ‘Spreading Rumors’ |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/06/09/china-denies-cuban-spy-facility-report-says-us-spreading-rumors/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Forbes |language=en}} to host a signals intelligence listening station operated by the People's Liberation Army Third Department of the Joint Staff Department.{{Cite news |date=June 9, 2023 |title=America and China try to move past a new bump in relations |url=https://www.economist.com/china/2023/06/09/america-and-china-try-to-move-past-a-new-bump-in-relations |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-06-16 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613 |archive-date=2024-06-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607132212/https://www.economist.com/china/2023/06/09/america-and-china-try-to-move-past-a-new-bump-in-relations |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Gámez Torres |first=Nora |date=June 8, 2023 |title=In bold move challenging the United States, Cuba agrees to host a Chinese spy base |work=Miami Herald |url=https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article276215936.html |access-date=June 16, 2023 |archive-date=June 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608164606/https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article276215936.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=July 1, 2024 |title=Secret Signals: Decoding China’s Intelligence Activities in Cuba |url=https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-cuba-spy-sigint |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240702051639/https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-cuba-spy-sigint/ |archive-date=2024-07-02 |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=Center for Strategic and International Studies |language=en}}