Plus for the time being, two of its best parcels are only in exploitation: Coco Key and Guillermo Key. Bathed by the waters of the Old Channel of Bahamas, the first one of these squatter 370 surface km2, what transforms it into the third in extension of the Cuban insular territory, and it is connected to mainland by a railcar on the sea pedraplén (stony tract road) that crosses the Bahia de Perros along 17 kilometers. An International Airport in the oriental end of that island, to only 15 minutes of the hotel area of Coco Key, and 35 min. of that of Guillermo Key, paymaster to give services to any type of airship, facilitates the direct access of visitors coming from Europe, Latin America or Canada.
To the abundant presence of the ibis target (popularly well-known as bird coconut) it owes their name this portion of the territory of Ciego de Avila, also identified as the" Island of the Flamingos" by the abundant colony of rosy flamingos that inhabit to the south of the key and that give an unusual and unforgettable show to those who travel to the key through the pedraplén (stony tract road), from where you can watch them at little distance from the inn The Seat, preferably very early in the morning or at dusk.
Coco Key, that already has a solid hotel infrastructure, possesses 22 kilometers of beach of fine sand and greenish and transparent waters, located in a practically virgin environment, where the forests and other vegetable formations cover near 90% of its territory. It also has several interior lagoons, ideal dwellings for diverse species of the fauna, and with two interesting interpretive paths: that of the dune of the Loma del Puerto that of Las Dolinas.
A visit to the place La Güira, where it relaxes the way of the coal merchants life that populated the center of the key at the beginning of the XX century; a dinner in the restaurant Rocarena, or a party night in The Cave of the Boar,are proposals to those that there cannot be given up.
Another pedraplén (stony tract road) connects this isle of Ciego de Avila with Guillermo Key, a minuscule island of hardly 13 surface km2, immortalized by the Prize Nobel of Literature Ernest Hemingway in its work Islands in the Gulf, when getting the attention on the green and promising that was for him. Its three beaches, among these Beach Pilar considered one of the most beautiful of the region, they reach a total longitude of four kilometers, and their scenic value is reinforced with the existence of other natural elements as the highest dunes in the Caribbean that reach up to 15 meters high.
The keys Media Luna and Los Felipes, located in front of their coasts, are two of the areas of more potentialities for the practice of the diving and the platform fishing and of height in the Jardines del Rey (Gardens of the King), a tourist region that has in Paredon Grande Key another significance attractiveness.
There , it can be enjoyed a splendid landscape from the Lighthouse Diego Velázquez, had had it built for more than one century of duration, on a rocky promontory of this island of hardly 6 surface km2 ,and that it still offers services to the sailing, or of the kindness of the beautiful beach Los Pinos.
Inland, Ciego de Ávila also has a lot to offer to the visitor. In the tract that mediates between Coco Key and the capital city, been founded in 1840, they highlight the Dutch town of Turiguanó , built at the beginning of the decade of the 60s to give seat to a cattle community, and the lagoons La Redonda (4.5 km2), where an International Center of Fishing of the Trout works, and of La Leche (67 km2), annual headquarters of the traditional aquatic carnivals of Morón and recently included among the scenarios of the World Championship of high-speed boats Formula T-1.
Morón popularly well-known the City of the Rooster, is the nearest to the Jardines del Rey (Gardens of the King). In their center it conserves some constructions of high architectural and urbanite value, and in their environment are still remains of the outposts of the built trail from there until Júcaro, a defensive system constructed in the second half of the XIX century by the Spanish Army to try to impede the advance of the Cuban Ejercito Libertador in the invasion of east to west and considered one of the most important works of military engineering in the Hispanic America.
Also in the surroundings of the big marshes and lagoons of the north of Morón, as well as in the vicinity of the Loma de Cunagua, some 40 areas are located for the hunt of species of feathers, among those which Los Aguachales de Falla , Chicola, La Yana Channel and Puente Largo are the good known ones. In this last one, also, it can be practiced the fishing of the trout, an activity that is developed also in the Liberation, dam of the town of Florence, area of great natural beauty located in the east of the province.
The Maximo Gómez International Airport is located on the way almost to half among Morón and Ciego de Ávila, city been founded in 1840 and marked by the prevalence in its constructions of the run portals, the neoclassical columns and the Creole tiles.
The Main Theater that finished being built in 1927 is considered by its acoustics among the best in the Island. The San Eugenio de la Palma Church , patron of the city; The House of the Culture and The Gallery of Art; the near Oasis Farm; or the Center of Bioplants, attributed to the Agricultural Superior Institute of Ciego de Ávila, they are also places of much attractive in a province of rich cultural traditions, excellently conserved in the neighborhood Jamaica, of Baraguá; in the traditional parties of Majagua; in the sprees of Chambas and Punta Alegre, or in the chore of the "OK Haitian Group", of the municipality Venezuela. |
