Güinía de Miranda explained

Official Name:Güinía de Miranda
Settlement Type:Village
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Pushpin Map:Cuba#Villa Clara Province
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Pushpin Map Caption:Location of Güinía de Miranda in Cuba
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Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Cuba
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Villa Clara
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Manicaragua
Established Title:Founded
Established Date:1536
Area Total Km2:114.2
Population As Of:2011
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:3,000
Timezone:EST
Utc Offset:-5
Coordinates:22.0468°N -79.8647°W
Elevation M:250
Area Code:+53-422

Güinía de Miranda, sometimes shortened as Güinía, is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Manicaragua, in Villa Clara Province. 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. 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 linking Manicaragua (18 km west) to Fomento (17 km east) and Cabaiguán (46 km east), both in the bordering Sancti Spíritus Province. It is the northern end of a road to Valle de los Ingenios (41 km south), a tourist site near the city of Trinidad (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, 39 from the tourist resort of El Salto del Hanabanilla, 52 from Santa Clara, 65 from Sancti Spíritus, and 74 from Cienfuegos.

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Notes and References

  1. Source: Mapa de Carreteras de Cuba (Road map of Cuba). Ediciones GEO, Havana 2011 -