GUANABACOA (an Indian name meaning "site of the waters"), a town of Cuba, in Havana province, about 6 m. E. of Havana. Pop. 79. Guanabacoa is served by railway to Havana, with which it is connected by the Regla ferry across the bay; a good motor road connects it with the capital. It is picturesquely situated amid woods, on high hills which furnish a fine view. There are medicinal springs in the town, and deposits of liquid bitumen in the neighbouring hills. The town is essentially a residential suburb of the capital, and has some rather pretty streets and squares and some old and interesting churches (in eluding Nuestra Senora de la Asuncion, 1 7 14-21) . Just outside the city is the church of Potosi with a famous "wonder-working" shrine and image. An Indian pueblo of the same name existed here before 1555, and a church was established in 1576. Already at the end of the 17th century Guanabacoa was the fashionable summer residence of Havana. It enjoyed its greatest popularity in this respect from the end of the i8th to the middle of the i9th century. The Key West cable now lands at Little Morro, the port of Guanabacoa, which was taken by the English in 1762.