By its Camagüey extension he is the greater one of the Cuban provinces. Eastern center of Cuba is located in the zone, 550 km to the east of Havana and in its coasts are located to the greater amount of keys and small barren islands that conform the Cuban archipelago and more than 120 km of beautiful beaches, 25% of the area of these in the country.

Although the Spaniards baptized like Santa Maria of the Port Prince, in 1514, the name that prioritized in the end, after several establishments, was the one that the natives gave him. With him one identifies the province and its capital city.

One says that the villa was born of the mud, because this used era to make the bricks with which the first houses rose and molded tinajones, Arab species of tinaja of great size (emblem of the region), used to gather together rainwater, of which they got to exist around 16 000 in all the city at the beginning of century XX.

Declared National Monument, the historical center of the provincial capital, whose totally asymmetric layout resembles in some places a spider fabric, he is most extensive of Cuba and one of which better conserve its ambientación and colonial architecture.

Camagüey became from very early a land of legend. As all society has in its culture a distinguishing face, marked nonsingle by the economic prosperity that always characterized the region, attracting in several occasions privateers and pirates, but also by history.

By all extensive camagüeyana geography the visitor can find attractive landscapes like the bath of Santa Lucia, the Archipelago of Reina, with his paradisíaco Key Caguama, and the Mountain range of Cubitas, places where she will be able to know the flora and the fauna, to practice nautical sports, the hunting and the fishing.

After the foundation in 1514, the villa of Santa Maria of the Port of the Prince knew several establishments, until at the beginning of 1528 it happened to occupy his present location, between the rivers Tínima, name that it identifies to an exquisite beer produced in the province, and the Hatibonico.

The city, officially baptized in 1903 like Camagüey, conserves much enchantment of its colonial past. The oldest part includes/understands the greater one and better conserved Historical Center of the country (300 hectares), declared National Monument, that resembles a city Christian-Muslim-Andalusian, of narrow and winding streets.

Journeying by them it is arrived at the main constructions, seats and representative religious temples of the time of the Spanish dominion and the stage of the republic. Many of those constructions were marked by the mud, which can be stated in its brick walls, ceilings of known red roofing tiles and tinajones.