Travel Guide of Camaguey, Cuba
Camagüey is the most oriental province of the center of Cuba, and it is that of major surface with 15,990 km ² and major producer of dairy cattle. Before the political - administrative current division it was including the territory of the nearby province of Ciego de Ávila, part of that of Sancti Spiritus and of that of Las Tunas.
The name of Camaguey also takes the cardinal city of the province, which is the biggest third metropolis of the country, one of the first towns been founded on Cuba, with the name of Santa Maria of the Port of the Prince on February 2, 1514 and there was nailed in the zone of Punta del Guincho, in the bay of Nuevitas, north coast of the province, much next to the city of Nuevitas head of the municipality of the same name. Due to the hounding of the pirates, corsairs and buccaneers of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, the city was moved to the center of the province, this is the principal reason of his current situation. Also, there has to be noticed the architectural character of the city, which turns out to be also soaked in this constant threat, being like that his historical center a real labyrinth of alleys and small and picturesque squares. Since it was a part of the first socio-political division of the island, it was characterized for being a focus of the sugar and cattle industries, owed largely to his wide meadows, and his almost nonexistent mountains. The principal mountainous formation is in the Saw of Cubitas (to the north of the province). Camagüey, is provided also with the second longest coral massif of the world (north of the province), only overcome by the Big Coral Australian Barrier. This way the lovers of the diving it has appointment forced in the waters of Saint Lucia, 112km to the north of the city, 20 km from white and thin arenas bathed by moderate waters. At present the city is provided with approximately 300.000 inhabitants, being the third province of Cuba, as for inhabitants.