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.