About Baraguá - Portal del ciudadano Baraguá

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Baraguá

Geographic location

The municipality of Baraguá has a surface extension of 728.18 km². It limits to the north with the Primero de Enero municipality, to the south with the waters of the Gulf of Ana María, to the east, it has as limits the municipalities of Florida and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and to the west the municipalities of Venezuela, Ciego de Ávila and Ciro Redondo.

Characteristics

It has a population density of 6911 inhabitants in 628 km². Its main economic source is the cultivation of sugar cane and the production of raw and refined sugar, as it has the only refinery in the province. It has the town of Baraguá and four bateyes where production units are located for the cultivation of sugar cane and other minor crops, which facilitate employment as a family breadwinner.

Structure adopted in 1990 to restructure the socioeconomic situation of Cuba, in addition to important social works in the sugar mill. The population of the popular council more than 80% depends economically on the sugar cane industry and agriculture.

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About its story

The place name Baraguá is of aboriginal origin, it means a place of abundant water, which is confirmed in terms of the presence of the underground basin that crosses the municipality, one of the largest in the province.

It has been determined that the first population nucleus was settled on the hill of Saint Nicholas. According to the Geographical Dictionary of the island of Cuba, it is known that in 1775 the small village was equipped with a parish temple dedicated to Saint Nicholas. In 1846, it had four houses, distant from each other, inhabited by fifteen whites, two free blacks and seven slaves. The plague and typhus decimated the nascent village and its inhabitants, attracted by the impetuous flourishing of Morón and Ciego de Ávila, flocked to these villages, leaving only two or three houses on that mound around 1868.

About its nature

Climate

Temperatures remain warm throughout the year, with an annual average that ranges between 24 and 26 °C, the maximum occurs during the summer between 26 and 28 °C, while the minimum occurs during the winter between 19 and 22 °C. C as average measure.

The average annual rainfall ranges between 1,200 and 1,400 mm, mainly towards the center and north of the municipality to the south, between 1,000 and 1,200 mm.

The rainiest period is during the months of May to October and the least rainy from November to April where it reaches less than 200 mm.

Winds (trade winds) from the east-northeast predominate during most of the year, during the months of November-March the winds from the south frequently follow each other.

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Development of the territory

In the municipality, as in the rest of the province and the country, the geographical environment has been changing since the first important settlements were produced at the beginning of this century. Towards the areas of the Guanales neighborhood first and San Nicolás later due to the foundation of the sugar mills, this brought with it the planting of large extensions of sugar cane and other crops for self-consumption.

In general, before the triumph of the Revolution, the transformations of the environment were quite limited. It is from 1959 that the environment is transformed with the aim of satisfying the demands of society, becoming more notable with the development of agriculture, from the creation of new agricultural and livestock plans, as well as the emergence of new populations and the increase of the existing ones.