Named by the colonizadores in 1515 like Santa Maria of the Port Prince, it constituted Camagüey one of the first villas founded by Pánfilo de Narváez, in the third stage of Conquista of Cuba. Located first in the North coast, where today Nuevitas is raised, it was transferred later to inland and finally to the borders of the Tínima river, where one is at the present time. They inhabited in its origins about 100 Spaniards and around a thousand of Indians. When great part of the Spanish colonizadores, when verifying that great gold deposits did not exist there, marched to neighboring regions of the continent not yet conquered by Spain, the few settlers who were dedicated themselves fundamentally to the cattle ranch, that he did not require abundant manual labor for his development. Camagüey had earth and I mount sufficient to foment the cattle mass.

In the century XVII already Camagüey she was recognized by his cattle development. In 1668 Henry Morgan was assaulted by the English pirate. In 1826, the first martyrs of Independence were dead in that territory. When beginning the War of the 68, raises Ignacio Agramonte with its group of brave. Its decision was irrevocable when it proclaimed:.. "Cuba does not have more way than to conquer its.redemption taking it to it to Spain by the force of the arms." In the War of the 95, the invasion advances by the camagüeyanas plains. To her the patriotic Salvador Cisneros Betancourt is united, with sixty and seven years and followed by a group of enthusiastic young people.

More than six decades later, during the War of liberation, columns 2 and 8, to the control of commanders Camilo Cienfuegos and Ernesto Guevara, respectively, advance by the camagüeyanas plains confronting the risks of the multiple ambushes of the enemy, imitate the feat of taking the insurrection to all the island. Ernesto Guevara, the heroic commander, wrote in 1958: "…se made feel the lack of footwear of our troops, many of whose men they went barefoot and on foot by fangotes of the south of Camagüey".