Báez Explained

Official Name:	Báez
Settlement Type:	Village
Mapsize:	280px
Pushpin Map:	Cuba#Villa Clara Province
Pushpin Label Position:	none
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location of Báez in Cuba
Pushpin Mapsize:	280
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Cuba
Subdivision Type1:	Province
Subdivision Name1:	Villa Clara
Subdivision Type2:	Municipality
Subdivision Name2:	Placetas
Established Title:	Founded
Established Date:	1804
Population As Of:	2011
Population Total:	7,000^[1]
Timezone:	EST
Utc Offset:	-5
Coordinates:	22.2168°N -79.7548°W
Elevation M:	200
Area Code:	+53-428

Báez is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Placetas, in Villa Clara Province. In 2011 it had a population of around 7,000.

History

The village was founded in 1804 with the name Hato de La Manigua, and some years later was named after a Spanish general named Guillermo Báez. Until the 1977 administrative reform, it was part of the municipality of Santa Clara.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Source: Mapa de Carreteras de Cuba (Road map of Cuba). Ediciones GEO, Havana 2011 -
2. Guije.com. Santa Clara. [{{in lang|es}}</ref> ==Geography== Báez is located on a valley between the [[Escambray Mountains]] and the borders with Sancti Spíritus Province, below a hillock and east of Agabama Reservoir. Nearest village is Guaracabulla, located 5 km north, and Agabama, 11 km south.

   It is 16 km from Fomento, 19 from Placetas, 26 from Mataguá, 36 from Manicaragua and 40 from Santa Clara and Cabaiguán, 62 from Sancti Spíritus and 67 from Hanabanilla.

   Transport

   The village is served by the A1 motorway at the exit "Báez-Guaracabulla". It counts a railway station on the line Placetas-Trinidad-Casilda.

   Personalities

   • Pepin Garcia (b. 1950), Cuban-American businessman

   See also

   • Municipalities of Cuba
   • List of cities in Cuba

   External links