Prints of the XVII century in Camagüey

It is a disclosed reality so little that walks hidden for most of people, and one of the passages hardly marks well-known or unpublished of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe.

It has, maybe, the appearance of a speculation: emigrated of a wide origin diversity lived in the XVII century in the today city of Camagüey.

Ecclesiastical documents and of clerkships of the time testify that the population of the village didn't only integrate , as for the foreign origin, originating of Spain and África.

The rest of the strange presence came from places like Ireland, Rome, Genoa, Venice, Sicily, Great Britain, Germany, France, Holland, Portugal, Venezuela, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo.

Of the emigration in that century were in yellowish folios names as Domingo Antonio of Aritona, Bartolomé of Xaynes Sunnia, Manuel of Coffin, Juana of Silva Copengier, Martin of Estert, Manuel of Roha, Juan de Li Coé, Antonio González de Figueroa, Lope Rodríguez of Ximénez and the Indian Francisco Carrión.

It was singular that multinational fork in a stage in which the village had, for example in 1689, hardly two thousand 739 inhabitants, and distabed a lot the beginning of its consolidation stage, begun in 1800 according to experts in the topic.

To it sinks the permanency of the establishment, from 1528, in its definitive location in the center of an enormous savanna, that which condemned her to a supposed isolation.

Sacred María del Puerto del Príncipe had lost its primitive coastal location and the difficulties of its contacts increased with the exterior, in one period in which the marine road was the main communication road in the Island.

So many setbacks didn't impede the migratory currents from so many dissimilar points to a town where in a majority way Spaniards resided, a population's African and Creole, as well as Indian survivors decimated by the conquest and the colonization.

How many of those no belonging to the migratory flows more nurtured in the XVII century to the village died there? How did they influence in the thought, in the customs and in other facets of the local life? Which descending its still reside in Camagüey?

Those are alone some of the questions whose answers, even in the most complete cases, have notorious cracks in the history of one of the oldest human establishments been founded by Spain in the New World.

They are, also, one of the so many enigmas that have arrived to our days with more than 300 years of existence, and continue withit veil spread in one of the less well-known centuries of Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe. ( Adolfo Silva Silva, AIN)

Oriental part of Cuba registers unusual seismic activity

Fifteen movements have felt in so far in the year in the southeast of the country, an unusual quantity in our registrations.

Digital Redaction / Television Camagüey

Specialists of the Geodinamic Observatory of Cuba detected a "high seismic activity" in the southeast of the island, when counting 15 telluric movements in so far in the year, the last of them in the night of Monday, of magnitude 4,2 in the scale of Richter.

The telluric movement of magnitude 4.2 in the scale of Richter, was registered at eight nine in the night (local time), in the coordinates 19.92 North latitude and the 75.94 longitude West and according to preliminary reports was felt in several municipalities of the counties of Santiago deCuba, Granma and Guantánamo.

Its epicentre was located to five kilometers to the south of Green Sea, in the municipality of Santiago de Cuba, to 20 kilometers deep.

The specialists of the Geodinamic Observatory of Santiago de Cuba "continue working intensely in the prosecution of the information related with the high seismic activity in so far in the year, regarding equal dates of 2009."

"The occurrence of the night of this Monday of the perceptible earthquake fifteenth of 2010, of medium intensity, emphasized the necessity to know and to get ready before these natural phenomena, taken place by the sudden liberation of the energy accumulated in an area of the interior of the Earth."

The last earthquake happened previously, of magnitude 4,4, took place February 12, fair one month after the strong earthquake that razed Haiti and that was perfectly perceptible in the Cuban oriental end.

The experts study possible relationships with the earthquake of Haiti and its numerous replics. The east of Cuba and Haiti are separated by a strait of hardly 77 kilometers. (Digital Redaction - With Information of the AIN)