San Antonio de las Vueltas, also known as Vueltas, is a village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) in central northern

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, belonging to the municipality of

Camajuaní Camajuaní is a municipality and town in the Villa Clara Province of Cuba. History In 1819 was decided the construction of a new port in near Caibarién to replace an old one located in Tesisco. From that moment, settlers established in the s ...

Villa Clara Province Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba. It is located in the central region of the island bordering with the Atlantic at north, Matanzas Province by west, Sancti Spiritus Province by east, and Cienfuegos Province on the South. Villa Clara ...

. With a population of 13,805 it is the most populated village in the municipality after Camajuaní.

History

Until the 1976 reform it was a municipality and contained the ''

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s'' of

Aguada de Moya Aguada de Moya is a small town and ward (“consejo popular”) in Camajuaní, Villa Clara, Cuba. The nearby towns are Chorrerón, San Antonio de las Vueltas, La Quinta, La Luz, Vega Alta, Pavón, Puente Pavón, El Rufugio, and Loma de ...

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, Cabecera (San Antonio de las Vueltas proper), Charco Hondo,

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, Quinta,

Sagua la Chica Sagua la Chica also known as Sagua is a rural settlement in Camajuani, Cuba. It has a population of 1,447 people. Sagua la Chica has the same name as the Sagua la Chica river and is 174 mi (or 280 km) away from the capital of Havana. ...

Taguayabón Taguayabón is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' (ward) of the municipality of Camajuaní, in Villa Clara Province. In 2012 it had a population of 2053. History The village, whose name means "butterfly village" in Taíno language, was founde ...

, Vega Alta and Vega de Palma.

Geography

Hills such as Mogote Colorada and

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dot the landscape and the

Sagua la Chica River Sagua la Chica River is a river of northern Cuba, that flows through Villa Clara Province. Arising in the hills of Placetas, it flows north for 45 miles and empties into the Bay of Buena Vista. Villages Towns and villages near the Sauga la Chica in ...

and Manacas River flow through the municipality.

Transport

Vueltas is crossed in the middle by the state highway "

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" (CN), and has a railway station (Vueltas-Vega de Palma), in the nearby village of Vega de Palma, on the line Santa Clara-

- Remedios-

Caibarién Caibarién is a municipality city in the Villa Clara Province, Villa Clara province of Cuba. Caibarién is known as "La Villa Blanca" () for its sands and beaches. They are famous for their "Parrandas" (Carnivals) along with Remedios, Cuba, Reme ...

Education

Schools in Vueltas include: * Santos Caraballé Primary * Camila Sobrado Primary * ESBU Rubén Martínez Villena Secondary * Centro Mixto Andrés Cuevas Heredia Secondary * IPS Fabricio Ojeda Technology School

Economy

According at the DMPF of Camajuani, Vueltas is a settlement linked to sources of employment or economic development. The Provincial Tobacco Company La Estrella has territory in La Quinta, Camajuani, Aguada de Moya, San Antonio de las Vueltas, and Taguayabón.

Infrastructure

In La Quinta,

, San Antonio de las Vueltas, and Vega de Palma there are a combined total of 13 Municipal Collection Establishment squares. There is also one Twisted Factory in Vueltas.

Personalities

The First

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José Ramón Machado Ventura José Ramón Machado Ventura, M.D. (born 26 October 1930) is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2008 to 2013. With the election of Raúl Castro as President of Cuba on 24 Feb ...

was born in the town in 1930.

References

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