Zone/Area: Isla de la Juventud
The Evangelist, the first name of the Isle of Youth, named for its discoverer, the navigator Christopher Columbus in 1494, during his second trip to these lands and served for about 400 years to pirates and smugglers as a basis for their misdeeds, until its renaissance with the revolutionary victory in 1959. Also known as Treasure Island, Parrots Island and Pines Island, received its current name in 1975 as recognition to the thousands of young people who studied there and develop their creative work The territory, composed by 672 cays and islets that make up the archipelago of Canarreos, shows visitors a rugged coastline with lush vegetation and topography where are present the mogotes, which keeps under its topsoil a priceless fortune in marble of the most diverse varieties. Land of the citrus and the ceramics, at the time of flowering the smell of orange blossoms dominates the air in a sign of the coming harvest of grapefruits and oranges, very demanded by consumers around the globe. Turned into protected zone by the natural and archaeological elements that lock up, it owns thick tropical forests where there are located iguanas of great size, jutías, doves and Marrons pigs, among others animal species conserved in its natural habitat. Source: Newspaper Granma, Havana. Cuba.
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