Birán

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| official_name = Birán

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| settlement_type = Village

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| coordinates = {{coord|20|31|48|N|75|53|44|W|region:CU|display=inline,title}}

| subdivision_type = Country

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| subdivision_type1 = Province

| subdivision_name1 = Holguín

| subdivision_type2 = Municipality

| subdivision_name2 = Cueto

| established_title = Founded

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| elevation_m = 66

| population_footnotes = [https://www.citypopulation.de/en/cuba/holguin/cueto/3210004__bir%C3%A1n/ Birán (Cueto, Holguín Province, Cuba)]

| population_total = 1788

| population_as_of = 2012

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| timezone = EST

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| area_code = +53-24[http://prozzone.proz-hosting.com/phone/Cuba/Biran.htm Dialing code of Birán] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017015822/http://prozzone.proz-hosting.com/phone/Cuba/Biran.htm |date=2013-10-17 }}

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Birán is a village in Holguín Province of Cuba, hamlet and consejo popular of Cueto,{{OSM|r|5904273|Cueto}}{{OSM|n|1336109283|Birán}} best known as the birthplace of Ramón, Fidel, Raúl and Juanita Castro. Their father Ángel Castro y Argiz owned a {{convert|93|sqkm|sqmi|adj=on}} plantation there.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/world/americas/ramon-castro-brother-to-cuban-revolutionaries-dies-at-91.html?_r=0 |first=Eli|last=Rosenberg|date=February 25, 2016 |accessdate = February 24, 2016 | title=Ramón Castro, Brother to Cuban Revolutionaries, Dies at 91 | work= New York Times}}{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/10/19/81990751.pdf |last=Phillips |first=R. Hart |date=October 19, 1959 |accessdate = February 25, 2016 | title=Cuba Takes Land of Ramon Castro | work= New York Times|page=2}}

History

Until the 1976 municipal reform, the village was part of the neighboring municipality of Mayarí.[http://www.guije.com/pueblo/municipios/omayari/index.htm Mayarí on guije.com]

A farm in Birán was the birthplace of former Cuban revolutionary leaders Ramón Castro Ruz, Fidel Castro, Raúl Castro and their sister Juanita Castro.{{cn|date=August 2021}}

Geography

It is located {{convert|30|km|mi|sp=us}} south-west of Mayarí and {{convert|9|km|mi|sp=us}} south of Cueto, in the foothills of the Nipe Mountains (Sierra de Nipe).