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"There are no to many tanks, water is collected in beautiful jars (...), placed in the yards, for its size 4 or 6 of them will contain all the water of a well" So described the havanan man Antonio Bachiller y Morales the typical Camagüey Jars when in 1838 he visited the city of Santa Maria del Puerto del Principe. The Tinajón (jar) is the Camagüey symbol par excellence. Thus, Camagüey is known in Cuba as the "city of Tinajones (Jars)". Although the Tinajones (jars) are produced massively in our region since the 17th century, are not unique. They were also made elsewhere in Cuba, Sancti Spiritus and Trinidad, West Indies, Jamaica, and even in South America, Chile and Peru. The red clay of the Sierra de Cubitas began manufacturing Tinajones since 1600, according to news, despite the fact that today there is no tinajón registered with that date. The oldest dates from 1760. Its production had the highest peak in the central decades of the 19th century. Beginning in 1868, with the start of the independence fights, was almost canceled. It was only restored between 1878 and 1895, then stopped completely. All of the Camagüey homes had at least one tinajón. Source: Portal of Culture of the Province of Camaguey, Cuba
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