To 495 years of it foundation: Camagüey Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity

By Yanais Vega Bacallao

To 495 years of the foundation of the Village of Santa María del puerto del Príncipe, people of Camagüey will receive with pride, this February two, the official declaration, of an area of the Historical Center as Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity.

Also known as city of the earthenjar receives the deserved distinction in honor to its intertwined streets, its squares, facades, lathed wooden grills, its Main Theater and why not, its town.

This proclamation that the UNESCO grants is also a desert homage to the cacique Camagüebax, to who the city owes its current name.

Seated in our days among the rivers Tínima and Hatibonico, in the same heart of the bigger than the Antilles is one of the oldest demarcations in the country.

It was founded on February 2, 1514, in Tip of the Güincho, in the northern Bay of Nuevitas, but due to the conditions of the land don't propitiate to the agriculture and the shortage of water the inhabitants were forced to look for a more appropriate place.

In 1516 ,the village is established in the cacicazgo of Caonao, on the seashore of the river of the same name. Already for January 6, 1528, before a rebellion of Indians, it was settled down definitively in the current place.

For the defense and conservation of Historical and Cultural Patrimony, Camagüey conforms the fifth center historical Cuban included inside the category of Patrimony and it has been denominated specifically as: “ Historical Urban Center", Patrimony of the Humanity.”

Writers and artists, of yesterday and of today, form the list of those that made Camagüey rename. From soft and delicate gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda`s feather , until the quarter note and burning poetry of Nicolás Guillén that more than to index to this colonial village, have honored whole Cuba.

Work in development of copies equine pure blood

Por:Alejandro Rodríguez

Camagüey, Jan 21. The reproduction work and it raises of genetic copies of equine, starting from the attention and cares of animals pure blood, it is developed by The Company for the Flora Protection and the Fauna of Camagüey.

Several facilities in the county work with that objective, as the San Vicente Ranch , in the municipality of Jimaguayú, the bigger of Cuba in the breeding of horses of the Arab race, the San José, in Sibanicú, The Amelita, in Guáimaro and that of The Nativity, in Najasa.

The digital site of Radio Cadena Agramonte that in the pastizals and blocks of these properties the development of diverse races is assisted, as Arabic, Patibarcino, Morgan, Creole of Trot, Paint Cuban, Apaluza and Pony.

At the present time, add thousands the copies of these animals of high genetic value, dedicated fundamentally to the preservation of the races, their multiplication and in a future to their commercialization inside of and outside of the country.

The dedication of its workers stands out in the attention to the copies, mainly to the sires, horses of very high value in the market, but that in Cuba are dedicated to preserve the equine species.

Among the animals pure blood, with which one works in this branch of the cattle raising, are the horse Breaks Wind, only sire in the country of the race Morgan; Monte Rey, the father of the Creoles in Cuba mount, already with 30 years, and Marajá, son of Rohara Renuir, one of the most renowned Arab copies nationally.

Will be declared officially urban historical center of Camagüey Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity

Camagüey Jan 21.The sector of the city of Camagüey declared Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity, will be proclaimed officially with that condition the next February two, anniversary 495 of the traditional date of the foundation of the formerly village .

The ceremony will happen linked with an artistic show in the park Iganacio Agramonte, old Square of Weapons, where began to be born the last location of the Village of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe, today Camagüey.

Dedicated to one of the first stable populational nucleo constituted by the Spaniards in the New World, the project for the date has artistic, literary, historical, political, recreational and sport character.

The programming includes activities like the symposium “Challenges in the handling and administration of the cities”, and the presentation of the Net of Offices of the Historian and of the Conservative of the City, which contains to entities of five counties.

Among the attractions figure equally the performance of the singers Kelvin Ochoa and Rosa María Ameneiro (Rochy), the first and two of February in the Square of the Workers, subjected at the present time to rebuilding, also in vigor in other areas of the town.

The list of companies to the celebration includes personalities like Herman Van Hoof, representative for Latin America and the Caribbean of the Organization of United Nations for the Education, the Science and the Culture (UNESCO).

In last July, the UNESCO granted the status of Cultural Patrimony of the Humanity to the part of bigger antiquity of the historical urban center of Camagüey, the most extensive in the country and with the category of National Monument.

Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe arose beside the northern bay of Nuevitas,it had it second establishment in the indigenous cacicazgo of Caonao, and in 1528 was transferred to her current location. (AIN).