Casilda is a

Cuba Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the ...

n village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger, more populous island of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the country. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in ...

Sancti Spíritus Province Sancti Spíritus () is one of the provinces of Cuba. Its capital is the identically named Sancti Spíritus. Another major city is Trinidad. Geography The southern coast of the province is flat, but the western portion of Sancti Spíritus provin ...

. Casilda is a

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, due to the presence of

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es such as Playa Ancón.

History

The village was founded in 1808 by Andrés Valdés Pino, in the vicinity of a farm named Peralta. Casilda's population in 1943 was 1,986.

Geography

Casilda is located south of Trinidad (5 km ) by the Gulf of Ana María, on the

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. It lies on the Casilda Bay, enclosed by the Ancón Peninsula, on which are located several hotels of Playa Ancón. Casilda's main road is ''Calle Real'', and the ''Carretera a Ancón'' (also called ''Paseo Agramonte'') links it to the peninsula. The village is 30 km from Valle de los Ingenios, 75 from

Sancti Spíritus Sancti Spíritus () is a municipality and capital city of the province of Sancti Spíritus in central Cuba and one of the oldest Cuban European settlements. Sancti Spíritus is the genitive case of Latin ''Sanctus Spiritus'' ("Holy Spirit"). ...

, 86 from

Cienfuegos Cienfuegos (), capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. It is located about from Havana and has a population of 178,368 in 2022. Since the late 1960s, Cienfuegos has become one of Cuba's main industrial centers, ...

, and 102 from Santa Clara.

Transport

Casilda is the southern terminus of the railway line which links

Placetas Placetas () is a city in the Villa Clara Province in the center of Cuba; before the change in the country's government in 1959 the province was called Las Villas. The town is also known as because of its wild Lauraceae, laurel trees. Placetas is ...

and Fomento to Trinidad, has a small

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, and is 4 km from Alberto Delgado Airport. The

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Circuito Sur The ''Circuito Sur'' (CS), meaning "Southern Circuit", is a west–east highway connecting Artemisa to Sancti Spíritus, through the southern and Caribbean Sea, coastal side of central-western Cuba.Source: ''Mapa de Carreteras de Cuba'' (Road map ...

" (CS), crossing Trinidad and linking it to Cienfuegos and Sancti Spíritus, is 5 km from Casilda's centre.

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