Casilda is a

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

n village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet)Casilda
on EcuRed of the municipality of

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

Sancti Spíritus Province Sancti Spíritus () is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is the identically named Sancti Spíritus. Another major city is Trinidad. Geography The southern coast of the province is flat, but the western portion of Sancti Spíritus provinc ...

. Casilda is a

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, due to the presence of

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es such as

Playa Ancón Casilda is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet)Casilda
on EcuRed of th ...

History

The village was founded in 1808 by Andrés Valdés Pino, in the vicinity of a farm named Peralta. Casilda's population in 1943 was 1,986.

Geography

Casilda is located south of Trinidad (5 km ) by the Gulf of Ana María, on the

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. It lies on the Casilda Bay, enclosed by the Ancón Peninsula, on which are located several hotels of

Playa Ancón Casilda is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet)Casilda
on EcuRed of th ...

. Casilda's main road is ''Calle Real'', and the ''Carretera a Ancón'' (also called ''Paseo Agramonte'') links it to the peninsula. The village is 30 km from

Valle de los Ingenios Valle de los Ingenios, also named Valley de los Ingenios or Valley of the Sugar Mills, is a series of three interconnected valleys about outside of Trinidad, Cuba. The three valleys, San Luis, Santa Rosa, and Meyer, were a centre for sugar produ ...

, 75 from

Sancti Spíritus Sancti Spíritus () is a municipality and capital city of the province of Sancti Spíritus Province, Sancti Spíritus in central Cuba and one of the oldest Cuban European settlements. Sancti Spíritus is the genitive case of Latin language, Lat ...

, 86 from

Cienfuegos Cienfuegos (), capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about from Havana and has a population of 150,000. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, especial ...

, and 102 from Santa Clara.

Transport

Casilda is the southern

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of the railway line which links

Placetas Placetas () is a city in the Villa Clara Province in the center of Cuba; before the change in the country's government in 1959 the province was called Las Villas. The town is also known as ''La Villa de los Laureles'' because of its wild laurel tr ...

and

Fomento Fomento is a town and municipality in the Sancti Spíritus Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1864. Geography The municipality is divided into the barrios of Fomento (municipal seat) and the village of Jíquimas. Until 1976 the villages of Jua ...

to Trinidad, has a small

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, and is 4 km from Alberto Delgado Airport. The

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" Circuito Sur" (CS), crossing Trinidad and linking it to Cienfuegos and Sancti Spíritus, is 5 km from Casilda's centre.

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History

Geography

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