San Antonio de las Vueltas

San Antonio de las Vueltas
San Antonio de las Vueltas ; Vueltas
	Village
	Village church
	Location of Vueltas in Cuba
	Coordinates: 22°31′00.1″N 79°42′07.7″W
Country	Cuba
Province	Villa Clara
Municipality	Camajuaní
Founded	1800[1]
Population (2011)[1]
• Total	13,805
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
Area code(s)	+35 422

San Antonio de las Vueltas, also known as Vueltas,[2] is a village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) in central northern Cuba, belonging to the municipality of Camajuaní, Villa Clara Province. With a population of 13,805[1] it is the most populated village in the municipality after Camajuaní.

History

Until the 1976 reform it was a municipality and contained the barrios of Aguada de Moya, Bosque, Cabecera (San Antonio de las Vueltas proper), Charco Hondo, Piedras, Quinta, Sagua la Chica, Taguayabón, Vega Alta and Vega de Palma.[3]

Geography

Hills such as Mogote Colorada and Palenque dot the landscape and the Sagua la Chica River and Manacas River flow through the municipality.[4]

Transport

Vueltas is crossed in the middle by the state highway "Circuito Norte" (CN), and has a railway station (Vueltas-Vega de Palma), in the nearby village of Vega de Palma,[5] on the line Santa Clara-Camajuaní-Remedios-Caibarién.

Personalities

The First Vice President of Cuba, José Ramón Machado Ventura was born in the town in 1930.[6]

References

(in Spanish) San Antonio de las Vueltas on EcuRed
2252643608 Vueltas on OpenStreetMap
San Antonio de las Vueltas on guije.com
"San Antonio de las Vueltas". Mariano Jimenez II and Mariano G. Jiménez and its licensors. 2004-09-01. Retrieved 2014-01-05.
4330189325 Vueltas-Vega de Palma railway station on OpenStreetMap
"Los Culpables de Cuba: La Elite de Poder (Cuba's Guilty: The Powerful Elite)" (in Spanish). Gadcuba.org. Archived from the original on 2004-09-21. Retrieved 2014-01-05.

External links

(in Spanish) San Antonio de las Vueltas on EcuRed
San Antonio de las Vueltas Destination Guide on trip-suggest.com
San Antonio de las Vueltas Weather on accuweather.com

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[EcuRed-1] (in Spanish) San Antonio de las Vueltas on EcuRed

[2] 2252643608 Vueltas on OpenStreetMap

[3] San Antonio de las Vueltas on guije.com

[4] "San Antonio de las Vueltas". Mariano Jimenez II and Mariano G. Jiménez and its licensors. 2004-09-01. Retrieved 2014-01-05.

[5] 4330189325 Vueltas-Vega de Palma railway station on OpenStreetMap

[6] "Los Culpables de Cuba: La Elite de Poder (Cuba's Guilty: The Powerful Elite)" (in Spanish). Gadcuba.org. Archived from the original on 2004-09-21. Retrieved 2014-01-05.