Our Region

Little lime North with Norte would hush it up (Cayo Romano), West with Punta Arenilla, East with Yellow Caña (Mines) and South with Glory (Cubitas's Saw). The ones that go to the beaches prepare to confront the reverberant sunshine on the high-temperature sand and enjoy the wind and saltpeter, something that it is in our genes like islanders of The Caribbean. Place between fishers and summer resorters where a little community was promoted, once their entrance for the islets of Cayo Guajaba was leant to the bottom of the interior bay of Glory, protégée and Cayo Romano.

The pilot port enrolls in the history of the first communities settled in the zone, although his real name is Pilot Punta since he does not have any port. One of the main tourist credits of the municipality Saws of Cubitas

Count on a restaurant, a store of industrial products, 2 barges for the enjoyment of the vacationists and inhabitants.

General characteristics of the typographies as to its style and position.

Cave of Pichardo: In this Cuevas the more spectacular and the best acquaintance of pictographies finds agroalfareros, once the meridional slope of the Cerro of Tuabaquey was placed in, in addition to 80 meters of height on the level of the base of this elevation. Your pictographies are located in a cavity rocky, to around six meters of the ground, in the inside of the entrance hall of the cave that remains in semi-semidarkness almost constant. In your first living room he has a pictographic set fixed by a geometric figure formed by the two-rhumb union and two triangles and an anthropological representation of 1, 27 meters of height; With a 1.23-meter width, that a close resemblance with the faces of the corresponding idols has this culture; And with certain degree of stylizing; Both are drawn in red color and their lines are very thick.

During the month of January late in the afternoon, the sunlight protrudes on both pictographies.

The position that occupies this set and the largeness of the same one that represents a human figure, allows thinking that it is about an important place from the point of ceremonial sight.

The Indian's Cave: Numerous pictographies that represent anthropomorphous figures and zoomorfas in a mix of the abstraction with naturalism, as well as the reproduction of a hand for direct impression.

They find themselves located in a living room opened in the entrance itself of the espelunca on the rock of the walls, from a height less of a meter to almost three meters of the ground. Some also are in a secondary formation in the center of the aforementioned living room.

Cave Matías: Two murals with over a treintena of anthropomorphous figures of different epochs distributed in two of the walls of entrance of the cavern, totally bathed by the light of the day. Figures are located to height that oscillate between one and two and half a meters of height. Only some a lot of drawings present geometric characteristics.

Cave Concessions: Pictography disseminated in a semi-dark gallery that serves as entrance to cavern, set at the height of a standing man. Other ones in the inside, deep down the cave to less than a meter of the ground. All pictographies present geometric lines and down payment in them a tall degree of abstraction.

Mary Theresa's Cave: Two painted murals, one in the structural rock and the other one in a kind of hanging keel of the roof; Both measure up to a standing man and show features of a lofty stylizing. It is in a living room graduates indirect lighting.

Cave of the Generals: Present two murals, one in front of the other painted directly on smooth structural walls of a little gallery of difficult outburst, lightly illuminated for the daylight. The paintings all natures; The anthropomorphous figures and zoomorfas represent stages also accomplished by a standing person. One of the murals seems to describe the encounter of the aborigines with the European conquerors. The aborigines are represented for human figures with lances and tails, while colonizers appear with swords and dickeys, some on horseback and with helmets finished crossed moneys. The women with children appear also.

Hill Tuabaquey. Climax in the Northerner Sierra of Cubitas, classified I eat: Orográfico. The bigger height of the vast plains is camagüeyanas, with 335 meters above sea level. Elevation represents also one of the emblems of The Ecological reserve Limones – Tuabaquey. He finds itself located north of Camaguey, the most extensive province of Cuba. Located between the 77 and 78 degrees of length west and the 21 and 22 north degrees of latitude.

You are separate of the one of Limones, also of the same group, for a mountain pass of around 20 meters in width, a kilometer of length and around 40 meters of height, giving impression of places of execution cut by the hand of the man when in reality they are idiopathic fruit of nature. Your ground is little fully-developed with high presence of carso, dogtooth and sedimentary carbonated strata. The vegetation is representative of forests semideciduomesófilo with a great variety faunística of birds, insects and reptiles.

Meaning historic cultural

From the point of sight historic cultural, Aboriginal communities used that natural surroundings and it imagines that in the wars of independence against Spain, this elevation served as position of observation of the insurgent forces in the motions of the peninsular ones for the zone.

At present he offers a service of guides to foreign visitors and Cubans, attention in the trajectory toward the peak, just like in the contact with the other sectors of the reserved area, included in the nature programs of tourism. In the top of the Cerro Tuabaquey it finds a Héroe Nacional José Martí's bust and the año2011 was once a concrete star with the names of Gerardo was placed, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René, the five emprisoned Heroes of the empire.

Tuabaquey's hill constitutes a natural lookout post in the Northerner Sierra of Cubitas, where the red land is sprinkled by the copious presence of the dogtooth, common noun of sharp-pointed calcareous rocks of marmoreal whiteness.
Elevation represents also one of the emblems of the reserved area Limones Tuabaquey, whose clearly visible natural resources include also, between other values, two singular sites in Cuba, the mountain pass Places Of Execution, as well as the Hole of Bonet, of extraordinary botanical variety.
A path leads to the top, crowned for a lookout in a landscape of marked antithesis, the great discontinuous plain for the mountain range, of average altitude from 150 to 200 meters.
Aboriginal communities turned the hill into one of their sanctuaries, and in the cave of Pichardo they bequeathed one of the most famous indigenous pictographies of the largest one of the West Indies, a painted deity to several meters of the ground, in a concavity illuminated by the daylight.

He offers a service of guides to foreign visitors and Cubans, attention in the trajectory toward the peak, just like in the contact with the other sectors of the reserved area, included in the programs of the tourism of nature.

Tuabaquey's hill is not a challenge for the alpinists, but yes a citation for those who they want to arrive as far as Camaguey stood on tiptoe in between her vast plains.

In June 2007 right after the execution of the project for the rehabilitation of the basin of the river Máximo, this beach resort is reopened natural.

The bordering reconstruction of the base of campismo is straightaway initiated to the brook.

The project is executed by the Company of Campismo, specialists of the Ministry of Ciencia, Tecnología and Environment and Construcciones's Entrepreneurial Group Sugar.

The installation governs itself for the model of cabins dispersed in the forest, in perfect harmony, in space and landscape, they are equipped with modern furniture, the fans, television set, cooling equipment, bunk beds and bed include sofa.

In his host set count on restaurant, video living room, sports areas, stable, medical position, living room of computation and coffee shop.Unlike her previous one, now the area of bathrooms is located inside the base perimeters.

The surroundings where they are located host and the beach resort, they add it to the development of different projects, the ones they make a date between, the contemplative senderismo, expeditions of adventures in caves and historic sites - west of the saw of Cubitas -.