Encrucijada () is a municipality and town in the

Villa Clara Province Villa Clara is one of the provinces of Cuba. It is located in the central region of the island bordering with the Atlantic at north, Matanzas Province by west, Sancti Spiritus Province by east, and Cienfuegos Province on the South. Villa Cl ...

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

. It was founded in 1850 and established as a municipality in 1910.

History

The municipality was divided into the

barrio ''Barrio'' () is a Spanish word that means " quarter" or " neighborhood". In the modern Spanish language, it is generally defined as each area of a city, usually delimited by functional (e.g. residential, commercial, industrial, etc.), social, a ...

s of Centro, Paso Real,

El Santo Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta (23 September 1917 – 5 February 1984), known professionally as El Santo or in English The Saint, was a Mexican luchador enmascarado (Spanish for "masked professional wrestler"), actor and folk hero. He is one of the ...

and

Vega Redonda Vega is the brightest star in the northern constellation of Lyra. It has the Bayer designation α Lyrae, which is Latinised to Alpha Lyrae and abbreviated Alpha Lyr or α Lyr. This star is relatively close at only from the Sun, an ...

. After the 1977 administrative reform,

Calabazar de Sagua Calabazar de Sagua, also shortened as Calabazar, is a Cuban village and ''consejo popular'' ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Encrucijada, in Villa Clara Province, Cuba. In 2011 it had a population of 7,912. History Founde ...

, part of Sagua la Grande, became part of it.

Geography

The municipality borders with

Sagua la Grande Sagua la Grande (nicknamed ''La Villa del Undoso'', sometimes shortened in Sagua) is a municipality located on the north coast of the province of Villa Clara in central Cuba, on the Sagua la Grande River. The city is close to Mogotes de Juma ...

, Cifuentes, Santa Clara and

Camajuaní Camajuaní is a municipality and town in the Villa Clara Province of Cuba. History In 1819 was decided the construction of a new port in near Caibarién to replace an old one located in Tesisco. From that moment, settlers established in the ...

. It includes the villages and popular councils of

Encrucijada Norte Encrucijada Norte is a ward ('' consejo popular'') in Encrucijada, Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud a ...

, Encrucijada Sur, Arroyo Naranjo,

, Constancia (Abel Santamaría), El Chivo, El Perico, El Purio (Perucho Figueredo),

, Emilio Córdova, La Sierra, Piñón, Playa Nazabal, Playa Piñón and San Francisco.

Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of Encrucijada had a population of 33,641. With a total area of , it has a population density of .

Notable people

* Onelio Jorge Cardoso (1914-1986), writer, born in Calabazar * (1911-1948), trade unionist and politician *

Abel Santamaría Cuadrado Abel ''Hábel''; ar, هابيل, Hābīl is a Biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within Abrahamic religions. He was the younger brother of Cain, and the younger son of Adam and Eve, the first couple in Biblical history. He was a shepherd wh ...

(1927-1953), revolutionary, born in Constancia * Haydée Santamaría Cuadrado (1922-1980), revolutionary, born in Constancia

References

External links