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Reserved area Saint Peter Macurije:

Date of creation, legal frame: Still he finds himself in process for your legal approval for the Executive Committee of the Advice of Ministros of Cuba.

Category of handling: Refuge of Fauna.

Location: Province Camaguey.

Statistical significance: Site.

Surface: 30 400.29 is., Of them 21 331.97 terrestrial and 9 068.32 marinas.

Administration: National concern for the Protection of the Flora and the Fauna (ENPFF).

Values of the area:

Fauna Macurije Santa María's Refuge is located at the coastal plain of the region suroriental of the country, in the municipalities of Vertientes and Florida of the province Camaguey. Way departs from the system: The Coastal Southern Marsh, that he has ecological values and economic nationals and regional.

The area belongs to the Distrito Fitogeográfico Guaimarense, where they inhabit around 215 endemic species, of them 25 they are exclusive of the same and the vegetation is composed of mangroves in the low coastal zones, semi-caducous forests mesophylls and secondary savannahs with abundant palm trees (royal Roystonea) and ceiba trees (Ceiba Tree pentandra). The main lagoons that he has name Little Black, Small Mouth, Santamaría and Little Stable, covers for dense forests of mangles themselves, in which the red mangle predominates (Rhizophora mangle).

The Southern Oriental region's coastal lagoons contain 127 sorts of birds, between the ones they stand out between for its abundance the aquatic (ducks, solitary sandpipers, herons and coconuts). Big aquatic migratory species'groups, mainly of orders Charadriiformes and Anseriformes, meet there in wintertime. Birds use a rice close zone like place of nutrition, while mangroves and coastal lagoons constitute important sites of refuge. Furthermore, populations of American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus), that they use the zone for nutrition and reproduction have gotten registered.

Some lagoons can become highly productive (even 1 ton there is year) of some groups of fishes like Gerreidae, Mugilidae, Lutjanidae, Centropomidae, shrimps and freshwater crabs, principally (Callinectes sapidus). Next to these there are other species that do not have commercial value, but that they constitute elements of importance in the alimentary plot. The main source of primary production is the macrofitobentos, integrated for the most part for grasslands of Thalassia testudinum and for big masses of filamentous algae.

We know that the main ecological problem that confronts this region is the decrease of the water mirror and the accumulation of sediments provoked by the represamiento of rivers, but by and large not yet has affected quality and health of this ecosystem. The interaction and connectivity with the marine environment is high, which is why these lagoons sustain big juvenile populations of fishes and shrimps principally (Penaeus schmitti and Penaeus notialis), that the main ruled lines of the commercial fishing in the gulfs of Ana María and Guacanayabo represent.

Municipal museum. (Hush 7 up To and B) Telephone: 32 30 7148.

Municipal walk. (Hush Up Trajectory)

Park to the Mothers. (Street B and C)

Catholic Church. (Hush 5 up Line and To)

Municipal Culture Matches ED. (Hush Up 6 and 7) Telephone: 32 30 7888.

Batey Central.

Little lime North with Norte would hush it up (Cayo Romano), West with Punta Arenilla, East with Yellow Caña (Mines) and South with Glory (Cubitas's Saw). The ones that go to the beaches prepare to confront the reverberant sunshine on the high-temperature sand and enjoy the wind and saltpeter, something that it is in our genes like islanders of The Caribbean. Place between fishers and summer resorters where a little community was promoted, once their entrance for the islets of Cayo Guajaba was leant to the bottom of the interior bay of Glory, protégée and Cayo Romano.

The pilot port enrolls in the history of the first communities settled in the zone, although his real name is Pilot Punta since he does not have any port. One of the main tourist credits of the municipality Saws of Cubitas

Count on a restaurant, a store of industrial products, 2 barges for the enjoyment of the vacationists and inhabitants.

In June 2007 right after the execution of the project for the rehabilitation of the basin of the river Máximo, this beach resort is reopened natural.

The bordering reconstruction of the base of campismo is straightaway initiated to the brook.

The project is executed by the Company of Campismo, specialists of the Ministry of Ciencia, Tecnología and Environment and Construcciones's Entrepreneurial Group Sugar.

The installation governs itself for the model of cabins dispersed in the forest, in perfect harmony, in space and landscape, they are equipped with modern furniture, the fans, television set, cooling equipment, bunk beds and bed include sofa.

In his host set count on restaurant, video living room, sports areas, stable, medical position, living room of computation and coffee shop.Unlike her previous one, now the area of bathrooms is located inside the base perimeters.

The surroundings where they are located host and the beach resort, they add it to the development of different projects, the ones they make a date between, the contemplative senderismo, expeditions of adventures in caves and historic sites - west of the saw of Cubitas -.

Hill Tuabaquey. Climax in the Northerner Sierra of Cubitas, classified I eat: Orográfico. The bigger height of the vast plains is camagüeyanas, with 335 meters above sea level. Elevation represents also one of the emblems of The Ecological reserve Limones – Tuabaquey. He finds itself located north of Camaguey, the most extensive province of Cuba. Located between the 77 and 78 degrees of length west and the 21 and 22 north degrees of latitude.

You are separate of the one of Limones, also of the same group, for a mountain pass of around 20 meters in width, a kilometer of length and around 40 meters of height, giving impression of places of execution cut by the hand of the man when in reality they are idiopathic fruit of nature. Your ground is little fully-developed with high presence of carso, dogtooth and sedimentary carbonated strata. The vegetation is representative of forests semideciduomesófilo with a great variety faunística of birds, insects and reptiles.

Meaning historic cultural

From the point of sight historic cultural, Aboriginal communities used that natural surroundings and it imagines that in the wars of independence against Spain, this elevation served as position of observation of the insurgent forces in the motions of the peninsular ones for the zone.

At present he offers a service of guides to foreign visitors and Cubans, attention in the trajectory toward the peak, just like in the contact with the other sectors of the reserved area, included in the nature programs of tourism. In the top of the Cerro Tuabaquey it finds a Héroe Nacional José Martí's bust and the año2011 was once a concrete star with the names of Gerardo was placed, Ramón, Antonio, Fernando and René, the five emprisoned Heroes of the empire.

Tuabaquey's hill constitutes a natural lookout post in the Northerner Sierra of Cubitas, where the red land is sprinkled by the copious presence of the dogtooth, common noun of sharp-pointed calcareous rocks of marmoreal whiteness.
Elevation represents also one of the emblems of the reserved area Limones Tuabaquey, whose clearly visible natural resources include also, between other values, two singular sites in Cuba, the mountain pass Places Of Execution, as well as the Hole of Bonet, of extraordinary botanical variety.
A path leads to the top, crowned for a lookout in a landscape of marked antithesis, the great discontinuous plain for the mountain range, of average altitude from 150 to 200 meters.
Aboriginal communities turned the hill into one of their sanctuaries, and in the cave of Pichardo they bequeathed one of the most famous indigenous pictographies of the largest one of the West Indies, a painted deity to several meters of the ground, in a concavity illuminated by the daylight.

He offers a service of guides to foreign visitors and Cubans, attention in the trajectory toward the peak, just like in the contact with the other sectors of the reserved area, included in the programs of the tourism of nature.

Tuabaquey's hill is not a challenge for the alpinists, but yes a citation for those who they want to arrive as far as Camaguey stood on tiptoe in between her vast plains.