<P> Playa Girón and Playa Larga were the landing sites for seaborne forces of armed Cuban exiles in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, an American CIA - sponsored attempt to overthrow the new government of Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro in April 1961 . </P> <P> According to Fidel Castro's former bodyguard, the late Juan Reinaldo Sánchez, Castro lived in great luxury and had a private island in the Bay of Pigs, replete with "mansions, guest houses, a heliport, dolphinarium, turtle lagoon, his luxury yacht Aquarama--a gift from Leonid Brezhnev--and deep - sea fishing speedboat". </P> <P> In Cuban Spanish, cochinos may also mean the queen triggerfish (Balistes vetula), which inhabits coral reefs in Bahía de Cochinos, not swine (Sus scrofa). </P>

Where does the bay of pigs get its name