Nov
07
Filed Under (Geography) by Dustin Dee Hart on 25-04-2007

2. Guamauhaya Range, is located in the central area of the country occupying part of the counties of Cienfuegos, Sancti Spiritus and Villa Clara and it is compound for Sierra of Escambray and Sierra de Trinidad, with a total extension of about 4500 km². This mountain range is but well-known as Sierra of Escambray and it is strongly bound to the recent history of the country to be the main scenario of the fight against the Cuban Revolution until middle of the decade of the 60.

The altitude here are between the 300 and the 1100 meters being reached the maximum in Pico San Juan with 1140 meters over sea level. These mountains in general are covered with thick vegetation among which the trees of beautiful wood are plentiful and the relief is abrupt with straits valleys and abundant cascades and its southern skirt is escarped and it finishes very next to Caribbean Sea of which separates a narrow coastal plain. In short, a paradise for the ecoturism.

3. Sierra Maestra, located in the southeast of the island is the biggest and highest mountain range of Cuba, forms a bastion to the long thing and parallelly to the south coast from Cabo Cruz until Punta de Maisi with around 250 km of longitude and between 15 and 60 km of width. They conform it properly Sierra Maestra, Sierra Cristal in the neighbor of Punta de Maisi and Sierra of Nipe in their northeast portion. The altitude in this region are between 300 and 2000 meters being reached the biggest heights in the country: Pico Turquino with 1974 meters over sea level, Pico Cuba, 1872 meters and Pico Suecia, 1734 meters.

Sierra Maestra is the natural and most majestic scenario of the country, treare are several natural parks as Pico Turquino, Desembarco del Granma, Santo Domingo-La Sierrita y Marea del Portillo that makes it specially appropriate for the nature tourism.

Sierra Maestra is also closely bound to the recent history of Cuba because was the scenario of the fight of Fidel Castro’s guerrillas against Fulgencio Batista dictatorship among final of 1956 and final of 1958.

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