Raizúa is a hamlet in
Encrucijada
Encrucijada () is a municipality and town in the Villa Clara Province of Cuba. It was founded in 1850 and established as a municipality in 1910.
History
The municipality was divided into the barrios of Centro, Paso Real, El Santo and Vega Redo ...
,
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 ...
. It is located east of
Constancia and west of
Paso Real. Raizua has a lot of
caballería
The () was a unit of land measurement in the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish viceroyalties in the Americas during the times of the Spanish Empire in the 16th through 19th centuries. It was equivalent to . The unit came from Spain, ...
called ''Micaela''.
Geography
Raizua's northern border is the Luis Perez farm and the east border is the Jose Perez Vergara farm.
Education
The settlements of Raizua,
Paso Real, and Pavon have 3 ''Escuela Mixta'' (Mixed Schools), which educate both boys and girls. The one in Raizua is called La Escuela de Raizua.
History
Raizua was a part of the District of
Calabazar and was formerly known as Potrero Raizúa.
Under general
Máximo Gómez
Máximo Gómez y Báez (November 18, 1836 – June 17, 1905) was a general of Dominican origin in the Cuban Wars of Independence (1868-78 and 1895–98). He was known for his controversial Scorched earth tactics, which entailed dynamiting pa ...
in the
Ten Years' War
The Ten Years' War (; 1868–1878), also known as the Great War () and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain. The uprising was led by Cuban-born planters and other wealthy natives. On 10 October 1868, sugar mil ...
during a battle in Raizua the train from
Sagua La Grande to Raizua was attacked by Luis Morejón, in which he got injured and his assistant Vega was killed.
On June 23, 1899, the
Province of Santa Clara appointed a sworn guard to guard Raizúa, and many more settlements in the province.
References
Populated places in Villa Clara Province
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