HOLGUIN, Cuba, Apr 30 (acn) Efficient preservation work has been performed to maintain the heritage values of the historic site of Bariay Cay, in eastern Holguín province, where Christopher Columbus landed in 1492.
The works consisted of applying a filler along the coast with a rocky center, a cream white covering, and plants on the surface to reforest the Eastern strip.
This sector of the cay, the point of arrival of Christopher Columbus in Cuba on October 28, 1492, was seriously eroded.
A phenomenon that had robbed some 150 meters of that coast in a thousand years, was particularly visible over the last few decades, and was endangering the museum - built on the site of what used to be the first community of aboriginal fishermen seen by Columbus.
Engineer Jesús Franco, a specialist with the Unit for Coastal Investment of the Center for Environmental and Technological Research and Services, explained that circumstances associated with the geological characteristics of the coast had influenced the erosion.
Also having a bearing on it were the global climate changes, the prevailing hydrodynamics, and the deterioration of traditional vegetation, basically replaced by areas of coconut cultivation.
The restoration works are aimed at the restoration of Bariay's landscape, appreciated by the Genoese sailor 516 years ago -a place of undeniable tourist attraction, 45 kilometers north of the city of Holguín, in the municipality of Rafael Freyre.
(Rehabilitan sitio por donde llegó Colón a Cuba hace 516 años)
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