Güinía de Miranda, sometimes shortened as ''Güinía'', is a
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...
n village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of
Manicaragua
Manicaragua () is a municipality and mountain town in the Villa Clara Province of Cuba. It is located in the Escambray Mountains at the southern part of Villa Clara, bordering the provinces of Cienfuegos Province, Cienfuegos to the west and Sanct ...
, in
Villa Clara Province
Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba. It is located in the central region of the island bordering on the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Matanzas Province to the west, Sancti Spiritus Province to the east, and Cienfuegos Province to the Sou ...
. It has a population of circa 3,000 and the council's administrative territory covers an area of 114.2 km².
History
Founded in 1536, at the end of the 16th century it was an estate depending from
Sancti Spíritus
Sancti Spíritus () is a municipality and capital city of the province of Sancti Spíritus in central Cuba and one of the oldest Cuban European settlements. Sancti Spíritus is the genitive case of Latin ''Sanctus Spiritus'' ("Holy Spirit").
...
. In 1862 Güinía was made up of 50 buildings and had a population of 300. Until 1976, it was part of the municipality of
Fomento.
Geography
Güinía de Miranda is a hilltown surrounded by the
Escambray Mountains, crossed by the
provincial highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either numbered or maintained by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a state or ...
linking
Manicaragua
Manicaragua () is a municipality and mountain town in the Villa Clara Province of Cuba. It is located in the Escambray Mountains at the southern part of Villa Clara, bordering the provinces of Cienfuegos Province, Cienfuegos to the west and Sanct ...
(18 km west) to
Fomento (17 km east) and
Cabaiguán (46 km east), both in the bordering
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 provin ...
. It is the northern end of a road to
Valle de los Ingenios (41 km south), a tourist site near the city of
Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...
(43 km). A secondary mountain road, 10 km long, links it to
Jibacoa, a village close to the
Hanabanilla Lake.
The village is 28 km far from
Mataguá
Mataguá is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Manicaragua, in Villa Clara Province. With a population of ca. 10,000, it is the most populated village in the municipality after Manicar ...
, 39 from the tourist resort of
El Salto del Hanabanilla, 52 from
Santa Clara, 65 from
Sancti Spíritus
Sancti Spíritus () is a municipality and capital city of the province of Sancti Spíritus in central Cuba and one of the oldest Cuban European settlements. Sancti Spíritus is the genitive case of Latin ''Sanctus Spiritus'' ("Holy Spirit").
...
, and 74 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 178,368 in 2022. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, ...
.
See also
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Topes de Collantes
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Municipalities of Cuba
The Provinces of Cuba, provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipality, municipalities (). They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. II, publish ...
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List of cities in Cuba
This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order. Population data refers to city proper and not to the whole municipality, because they include large rural areas with several villages. All figu ...
References
External links
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Populated places in Villa Clara Province
Populated places established in 1536
1536 establishments in the Spanish Empire
1536 establishments in North America
Wards of Cuba