CubaMania Cuba Forums - Guaracabulla

My Atlas de Cuba puts it to the south west of Placeta and north of Baez in Villa Clara an indicates that it has a population of between 1000 and 3000 people - though it's an old atlas [ 1978 ] so I guess that might be a bit inaccurate now. Also multimap puts it right, smack bang on the autopista so I guess it could have grown a bit since that was built.

calle.com gives it's exact position and altitude...

Not directly Guaracabulla, but this is from the Centro Arte website

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The municipality of Placetas was founded officially 1st of January of 1879, but had been inhabited since 1684 when some people from the nearby territory of Remedios were transferred towards a place known as El Copey, very near to the present head of the Municipality and formed the first population nucleus which would later become Placetas.

For various reasons the population living there was transferred towards El Ciego, and later to Guaracabulla from where in 1869, due to the war, many inhabitants were transferred to a place known as Las Placetas, where a fort had been constructed to protect the population from attacks by independence fighters.

Throughout this period 5441 Hispanic were based at the fort,originating from the all 17 regions of Spain but mostly from the Canary Islands (63,9%), Galicia (10,2%) and Asturias (7,4%).

Also within this territory were approximately 1714 enslaved Negroes, that were brought as manual labor for the agricultural workings, mostly the cultivation ofsugar cane. The greatest number of the slaves were congos, followed by gangas and lucumíes and to a lesser extent mandingas, carabalíes, ibos, minas, macúas, ararás and others.

Later on the manual labor of the Negroes was replaced by Chinese ... the majority of these being Cantonese (88,9%).

These immigrations have left their mark in the culture of Placeta, which can be seen *in various traditions that still remain regarding celebrations, music, dance, crafts, oral Literature, as well as in the traditional meals and drinks and other habits and customs.

Only related to Guaracabulla in name, the exile group LA SOCIEDAD ECONÓMICA DE AMIGOS DEL PAÍS calls it's official publication 'Guaracabuya' due to the fact that Guaracabulla has long been regarded the geographical centre of Cuba...