Pinar del Rio and surroundings • Cuba (EN)

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01:01 • Cueva de las Portales
02:30 • Che Gevara’s hideout during the missile crisis
03:24 • tobacco and cigars
05:40 • a walk in Vinales
07:08 • Santeria: statuettes at the foot of the trees
08:06 • Hutia, endemic mammal of Cuba

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In eastern Cuba lies a large agricultural region, the tobacco mecca, Pinar del Rio. The caves named Cueva de los Portales are remarkable and served as a shelter for Che Guevara during the missile crisis in October 1962. Its basic installations have been preserved.
The Vinales Valley is famous for its tobacco plantations and other food resources. The region also attracts a lot of tourists for its magnificent landscapes.

about the place, Pinar del Rio:
Pinar del Rio which was originally called, in 1867, Nueva Filipinas due to the large number of Filipino workers who worked in the tobacco plantations. Pinar del Rio is a vast agricultural region in western Cuba.
The first inhabitants of the region were the Guanahatabey Indians, a peaceful nomadic troglodyte people who lived mainly on the resources of the sea. The Guanahatabey had disappeared before the arrival of conquistadors, which ironically saved them from many inconveniences. .
The conquistadors didn’t really care about this region … they were warriors, not farmers. All the more so because they could not enslave the local populations since they had disappeared.
The first settlers to take an interest in the region came from the Canaries, towards the end of the 15th century. They developed tobacco cultivation and developed large ranches for raising cattle.
And when the demand for tobacco grew in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, communication facilities such as the railroad developed in the region.
Pinar del Rio owes its name to the presence of pine forests along the Rio Guama.

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– YouTube video library – Constancy Part 1 – The Descent, (Constancy Part 1 – The Descent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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– YouTube video library – Constancy Part 2 – The Descent, (Constancy Part 3 – The Descent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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– YouTube video library – Constancy Part 3 – The Descent, (Constancy Part 3 – The Descent by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
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– – Sunshine Samba
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