San Antonio de las Vueltas

San Antonio de las Vueltas
Vueltas
Village
Village church
Location of Vueltas in Cuba
Coordinates: 22°31′00.1″N 79°42′07.7″W / 22.516694°N 79.702139°W / 22.516694; -79.702139Coordinates: 22°31′00.1″N 79°42′07.7″W / 22.516694°N 79.702139°W / 22.516694; -79.702139
Country  Cuba
Province Villa Clara
Municipality Camajuaní
Founded 1800[1]
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 13,805
Time zone UTC-5 (EST)
Area code(s) +35 422

San Antonio de las Vueltas, also known as Vueltas,[2] is a village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) in central northern Cuba, belonging to the municipality of Camajuaní, Villa Clara Province. With a population of 13,805[1] it is the most populated village in the municipality after Camajuaní.

History

Until the 1976 reform it was a municipality and contained the barrios of Aguada de Moya, Bosque, Cabecera (San Antonio de las Vueltas proper), Charco Hondo, Piedras, Quinta, Sagua la Chica, Taguayabón, Vega Alta and Vega de Palma.[3]

Geography

The territory is rugged, with the exception of the coast, which is low and muddy. Hills such as Mogote Colorada and Palenque dot the landscape and the Sagua la Chica River and Manacas River flow through the municipality.[4]

Transport

Vueltas is crossed in the middle by the state highway "Circuito Norte" (CN), and has a railway station (Vueltas-Vega de Palma), in the nearby village of Vega de Palma,[5] on the line Santa Clara-Camajuaní-Remedios-Caibarién.

Personalities

The First Vice President of Cuba, José Ramón Machado Ventura was born in the town in 1930.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 (in Spanish) San Antonio de las Vueltas on EcuRed
  2. ↑ 2252643608 Vueltas on OpenStreetMap
  3. ↑ San Antonio de las Vueltas on guije.com
  4. ↑ "San Antonio de las Vueltas". Mariano Jimenez II and Mariano G. Jiménez and its licensors. 2004-09-01. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
  5. ↑ 4330189325 Vueltas-Vega de Palma railway station on OpenStreetMap
  6. ↑ "Los Culpables de Cuba: La Elite de Poder (Cuba's Guilty: The Powerful Elite)" (in Spanish). Gadcuba.org. Archived from the original on 2004-09-21. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
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