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Flora, Fauna and Geography

The name of little barrels took place for him because the a lot of hills that surround it were making it alike to the city of Santiago de Cuba. The saw of little barrels constitutes the group most important orográfico of the province of Camaguey going for the name to the municipality, this unlawful tenant great part of the physical geographic named region likewise Saws of little barrels and includes besides part of the extensive bedsheets that go all the way to the proximity of the city of Camaguey and the coastal plain for the north where her part finds clay soils with good conditions for the agricultura.Por the saw has little zones of semi-deciduous forests formed by remains of the original flora on calcareous limestones, due to its characteristics cársicas, they find numerous caverns of incomparableBeauties just like phenomena that the landscape of the zone and that they make an interpretation difficult on the origin and the evolution of the aforementioned Sierra, some of those caverns complicate extraordinarily keep the archeological and cultural treasure of the cave paintings indocubanas, which is why científico.Las are of great interest most important elevations of the municipality are the hills of tuabaquey and lemons with 330 and 309 meters of height above sea level, these are separate for the mountain pass known by the paredones.El superficial dripping of this territory is made of little brooks, without that the existence of rivers of importance is noticedTo this section of the segment of the river Máximo where your fluvial trajectory has achieved your cause through marmoreal limestones that date from the tertiary period, creates a beautiful gallery known by The Cangilones.El Valle of Cubitas in the north part of the municipality he counts on extensive areas transformed of red little tinsmiths that the grounds of great dedicated benefit possess cultivations fundamentally of citrus fruits, follows him the production of viands, cane and ganadería.En the zone are forestal formations of importance formed by forests simicaducifolios. The fauna is plentiful in the saw, where the intricate vegetation makes out great number of endemic species the paper of safe refuge Cubans, the ones they meet between Jata's, the Butterfly's, the Little Frog's, the Venterilla's and the Alacrán.También's Bat can find another enclave, only of her guy in the island, it is the Hoyo Bonet, where can be located 200 species of the flora in a surface of 400 square kilometers with a microclimate inside a conical orifice of 80 meters of depression, cutlery of trees frondososLos Paredones possessor of an incomparable beauty with their 40Meters of profundad and almost two kilometers of length, that they really turn her into the most famous mountain pass of Cuba.La fauna is abundant in the saw, where the intricate vegetation makes out great number of endemic species the paper of safe refuge Cubans, the ones they meet between Jata's Bat, the Butterfly, the Little Frog, the Venterilla and the Scorpion.

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