Bauta

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Bauta is a municipality and city located 25 miles southwest of the city of Havana, in the Havana Province of Cuba.
It was founded on January 14, 1879.[citation needed]
Bauta is a regional trading center for the local farm community. Regional crops include sugarcane, pineapple, tobacco, root vegetables, and citrus fruits. In recent years Bauta has become a haven for Cuban artists and musicians.
Bauta is probably best known internationally as the site of a Soviet listening post that spied on the United States until 2000, when the facility, known as the Lourdes Base was closed by the Russian government.
Rio Baracoa crosses the municipality, and Playa Baracoa is established at its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico.