Cuba Hurricane of 1932 Early on October 30, a tropical depression formed about northeast of Barbados. Moving nearly due west, the depression brushed Martinique on October 31, shortly before entering the Caribbean and intensifying into a tropical storm. Upon reaching the central Caribbean, the cyclone turned west-southwestward and strengthened into a hurricane early on November 2. It reached Category 2 status about 24 hours later near the Guajira Peninsula. The storm strengthened into a major hurricane on November 4, and continued to intensify, peaking as a Category 5 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of and a minimum barometric pressure at or below on November 5 as it moved west-northwestward over the western Caribbean. The storm later turned northward and then northeastward by early November 9, around the time that it weakened to a Category 4 hurricane. Overall, the system maintained Category 5 status for 78 hours, which is the longest amount of time on record for a storm to remain at that intensity. The cyclone struck Camagüey Province in Cuba on November 9 as a Category 4 hurricane with winds of and a barometric pressure of . The storm emerged into the Atlantic over the Bahamas and continued to slowly weaken. On November 13, the cyclone fell to tropical storm intensity and became extratropical several hours later about southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The extratropical low turned eastward and dissipated near the Azores late on the following day. In the ABC islands, the hurricane destroyed Curaçao's harbor fortifications, while the pier on Bonaire was demolished. Several coastal towns and seaports in Colombia in the vicinities of Barranquilla and Santa Marta suffered extensive damage. Some inland farms were ruined by flooding and strong winds. On Providencia Island, major damage to agriculture occurred and 36 homes were demolished. High winds in Jamaica downed more than 2 million trees and caused up to a 50 percent loss of banana crops in some areas. Damage in Jamaica totaled approximately $4 million. In the Cayman Islands, the storm was considered the worst to strike the archipelago until Hurricane Ivan in 2004. On Grand Cayman, 60 homes were either destroyed or suffered major damage, rendering about 250 people homeless, while only 6 dwellings remained standing on Little Cayman. The hurricane demolished schools on both Cayman Brac and Grand Cayman. The death toll in the Cayman Islands reached at least 109. In Cuba, a massive storm surge