Hill Tuabaquey: Great gentleman of the heights of Camagüey

The step of the Walls figure among the main attractiveness of Lemons - Tuabaquey.

Hardly has 330 meters on the level of the sea and its magnitude doesn't wake up any astonishment. But in spite of the report of the altimeters is the great gentleman of the heights in Camagüey, the county with the most extensive plains in Cuba.

The hill of Tuabaquey constitutes a natural watchtower in the northern Sierra de Cubitas, where the red earth is sprinkled by the plentiful presence of the “dog tooth”, name common of pointed calcareous rocks of marble-like whiteness.

The elevation also represents one of the emblems of the protected area Lemon-Tuabaquey whose notorious natural wealth also include, among other values, to two singular places in Cuba, the narrow pass The Walls, as well as the Hole of Bonet, of extraordinary botanical variety.

A path leads to the summit, crowned by a mirador in a landscape of marked antithesis, the great plain interrupted by the mountainous chain, of altitude average of 150 to 200 meters.

Aboriginal communities transformed to the hill into one of its sanctuaries, and in the cave of “Pichardo” bequeathed one of the most famous pictographies indigenous in the bigger than the Antilles, a colored deity to several meters of the floor, in a concavity illuminated by the solar light.

A service of guides offers to foreign and Cuban visitors, attention in the itinerary toward the peak, the same as in the contact with the other sectors of the protected area, included in the programs of the nature tourism.

It is not the hill of Tuabaquey a challenge for the mountaineers, but yes a convocation for those who want to arrive up to where Camagüey zoomed amid its vast plains.(Adolfo Silva Silva / AIN)