Siboney is a Cuban village[1] and consejo popular (i.e.: people's council) located in the east of the city of Santiago de Cuba and belonging to its municipality.
Geography
The village lies by the Caribbean Sea, near the road linking Santiago to Baconao, through the eastern coastal area of Santiago municipality.
History
Siboney was known in early modern literature as Altares or Ensenada de los Altares.[2]
Siboney was also the location of a farm where Fidel Castro and his men gathered shortly before the attack on the Moncada Barracks, which is widely regarded as the start of the Cuban Revolution.