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

(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

, 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, ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guinia de Miranda 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

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