Bayamo (San Salvador de Bayamo), Cuba, North America
Year 1513 latitude: 20° 22' longitude: -76° 38' Period Initiator(s) Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar Planning organization Spain Nationality initiator(s) Spanish Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 222,118 (2004) Target population Town website Town related links http://www.guije.com/pueblo/municipios/obayamo/index.htm Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
San Salvador de Bayamo was founded in 1513 and it was the second of the seven towns that Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar (conquerer and governer of Cuba for Spain) founded on Cuba. Later spanish colonial cities follow the principles that are determined in the the Laws of the Indies that was written in 1523. This town therefore couldn't have followed these exact principles. Like the towns that were build according to the principles written down in the Laws of the Indies, Bayamo has a central square where the main church and the town hall are to be found. In contrast, the town doesn't follow a gridiron. source: Ellen van Holstein
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