In the coasts of the Tunas, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean (North) and the Gulf of Guacanayabo (South), they are located more than 30 virgin beaches from which only one, Covarrubias, receives today tourist international.

The Tunas, which it is known him like the capital of the sculpture of the Cuban archipelago, is in addition host permanent to the most transcendental and attractive celebration farmer of the country: the Cucalambeana Day and has in the city of Port Father a datum point forced for the visitor.

Of very recent appearance in international the tourist scene of the greater one of the Antilles, the province of the Tunas includes 6 584 km2 of the northeastern portion of the island of Cuba and counts with more than 35 absolutely virgin beaches in its 265 kilometers of irregular coasts.

The sugar production and the cattle ranch are the two fundamental economic activities of this territory, of which historical references exist from 1510, but which only from second half of century XVIII it began to fill very slowly.

The villa of Tunas was founded on 1759 and today the capital of the sculpture in Cuba constitutes a considered city, because in his little more than 600 km2 of extension 70 monumental and environmental works are exhibited.

Sites of tie relevance with develop initiated Cuban independentista in century XIX exist many in this province and evidences of this active participation can be in the provincial museum General Vicente Garci'a. There are also stone testimonies, like the Fort of the Hill (National Monument) constructed in Port Father, an establishment that began to grow almost at the end of the decade of 1860 and which today it hoards a true natural curiosity: in its levee is one of the few fresh water springs of the island that spills its waters in the border of the sea.

The Tunas, that today has in operation the more modern steel plant of the country, also counts on the endorsement of the Program of Nations United for the Development (the PNUD) and the World-wide Alimentos Program (PMA) to ahead take there one of the most important programs of milk production of cow of the Island.