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WHY CALL US LIKE THIS. TOPONYMS.
When we extend the map of the Cienaga de Zapata we immediately observe the repetition of names - seeming to be a mistake by the expert cartographer - but guilt is removed from him, assisting him with all the historical truth. There are two factors that lead to such a situation:
The territorial immensity of the wetland bringing closer latitude than the extremes of the meridians.
The settlement and constant depopulation consequently brought that each distinguished new tenant believed himself the "Grand Admiral" or famous "Tata Lechuzo", designating names left and right.
In this way, Santas, Saints, Crocodiles, savannahs, Burned jimagüas and sometimes triplets are born! However regardless of who the firstborn was, they are all children of the wet mother, so they have been preserved in the oral history and folklore of Cienaguero:
"La Montañita", due to the thickness of the mountain (mount) that they found in that place; "Philippines", because the whole court belonged to children of Vuelta Abajo, which was known then as the "New Philippines"; "San Lázaro", name given to him by his primitive manager, who being a lazarin, in that place was cured with some herbs found in his mountains; "Corn", because the conucos of this grain settled there; "Santa Teresa or Hierba de Guinea", because with both names it was known, for being so designated by its original owners.
Santa Teresa occupied, then, land that is now occupied by the swamp, since in ancient documents it appears that their cattle were going to drink water from the Treasure Lagoon, which was considered as the farm's watering point.
The southern savannas were exploited by a settler named Juan Luis Valdés, who walked the jobo, that is, a fugitive from justice, and every time he was suspicious that they could go looking for him, he hid in some keys that exist in front of these savanna, belonging to the Canarreos archipelago, which currently retain that name, as it is known by the Juan Luis cays, as is the savanna.
The blind people of Zapata believe this legend so truthfully, that they are offended if it is doubted ... "
Only "Buenaventura" and "La Criolla" survive from those primitive population settlements recorded by the legend of Tata Lechuzo, although the place names have not succumbed to the passage of time either.
Today the Ciénaga de Zapata Municipality with its 4230 km2 shows the visitor 22 villages where 8763 people live together with a population density of 2 inhabitants x km2. Of course, before the triumph of the revolution the dispersion was extraordinary, in every corner of that majestic basin (4520 km2) "stunted" bateyes, chuchos and necropolis of "solitude and oblivion" proliferated.
She concentrated that dispersed population so that the benefits of the process reached everyone equally - it was impossible with the previous situation - to supply electricity, running water, education, culture, health and other human rights.
POPULATION No HOUSING (in 1998) ORIGIN OF ITS NAME
Pálpite .................................... 240 ............ ............................ Foreboding, hunch.
It is derived from the word
pounding or throbbing.
Mario López .......................... 247 ..................... .................. Associated with the industry
sugar bowl. So it was named
the colony manager
of reed fostered here in
1919.
Long Beach ....................... 49 ........................ ........ It owes the name to its 400
meters long.
Caletón ................................. 273 ............... .................. For constituting an inlet
more broadly in the
input than their
sisters, also by
own 300 m. of length.
Buenaventura ..................... 78 ........................... ............... It had as its primary name
Ventura, thanks to the founder in
Then would come the sanctified
place name of "San Buenaventura" and
in 1904 Maximino Yebra makes
honor her name by turning her
on the most prosperous farm in this
zone.
St Thomas……………. 60 ..................................... Relates to orders
ecclesiastical than in distant
times baptized the seats of
His properties. Although where
today the town is promoted carries the
name of "The Crocodile".
corresponding to him it was a
realengo (had not been
mercedado) for what
linked to the colonial government.
Blowing ............................. 126 ................... .................. For being located in an area
where the tree called
blow (plural).
Hondones ........................... 55 ..................... ................ It comes from the word deep.
They proliferate in their surroundings
"sinkholes or cenotes", pools, rivers
underground, as part of a
interesting system
speleolacustre.
Girón Beach ....................... 619 ........................ ............ Associated with the famous pirate Gilberto
Girón.
Guasasa ............................ 78 .................... ................. There are few who affirm that
the original name is "Caleta de
La Guasa ", because the Spanish José
Suarez caught a fish named
300 pound "joke". Even if
this piece of coastal soil already
he was blessed as
corral in the second half of
century XVI.
Crocodile ........................... 41 ..................... .............. By capturing a large reptile there
associated with the species of the place name.
Viradero ............................ 11 .................... .............. Associated with the Covadonga railway.
There they turned, changed direction
railway vehicles.
that plant in place.
Vermilion (s) ........................ 40 ..................... ........... Two names are associated
originating. Great Jucaro Vermilion
tree) that delimited the colonies of
Bermeja and Helechal; Vermilion Lands
(reddish blonde), characteristics of
I usually.
San Blas ........................... 19 .................... ................ Sanctified by the ecclesiastical order
"Los Dominicos", established in its
fertile land from 1900.
La Ceiba .......................... 129 ..................... ............ It comes from two kapok trees (largest tree
of the Antilles) that have still been
the Laguna de Marcos, located
kilometer east of the current batey.
Although she was merced as a Corral
in the second half of the 16th century.
Cayo Ramona .................. 587 ............................. Its primary name is Cayo
Ramones, related to a key of
mount where the tree abounded
Ramón; With which they satiated the
hunger and thirst the beasts, taking the
travelers a break. Then it was a
female named Ramona the graceful
sometimes and unfortunate others
according to each popular version.
Toll (eastern) ................ 12 ............................. ..When the road was built
Yaguaramas - Covadonga - Girón se
built a toll to collect the
traffic.
Powder magazine .......................... 11 ...................... .......... You owe your name to a deposit of
dynamite and explosives that were there,
to support the works of the Villa de
Girón, Carretera and others.
El Rincón ........................ 23 ....................... .......... Its real name is El Rincón de
Beasts, because there they carried
take refuge all those animals in
time of fillings or floods.
Forestry ............................ 9 .................... .............. Small population seat emerged
after the revolutionary triumph. There
sector control offices were located
forest.
