Báez
Village
Map of Báez (Red) in Placetas (Orange) in Villa Clara (Yellow)
Map of Báez (Red) in Placetas (Orange) in Villa Clara (Yellow)
Báez is located in Cuba
Báez
Location of Báez in Cuba
Báez is located in Villa Clara Province
Báez
Báez (Villa Clara Province)
Coordinates: 22°13′00.3″N 79°45′17.4″W / 22.216750°N 79.754833°W / 22.216750; -79.754833
CountryCuba
ProvinceVilla Clara
MunicipalityPlacetas
Founded1804
Elevation
200 m (700 ft)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total7,000[1][2]
Time zoneUTC-5 (EST)
Area code+53-428

Báez is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Placetas, in Villa Clara Province. In 2011 it had a population of around 7,000.[2]

History

The village was founded in 1804 with the name Hato de La Manigua, and some years later was named after a Spanish general named Guillermo Báez. Until the 1977 administrative reform, it was part of the municipality of Santa Clara.[2]

Geography

Báez is located on a valley between the Escambray Mountains and the borders with Sancti Spíritus Province, below a hillock and east of Agabama Reservoir. Nearest village is Guaracabulla, located 5 km north, and Agabama, 11 km south.

It is 16 km from Fomento, 19 from Placetas, 26 from Mataguá, 36 from Manicaragua and 40 from Santa Clara and Cabaiguán, 62 from Sancti Spíritus and 67 from Hanabanilla.[3]

Transport

The village is served by the A1 motorway at the exit "Báez-Guaracabulla". It counts a railway station on the line Placetas-Trinidad-Casilda.[4]

Personalities

See also

References

  1. ↑ Source: Mapa de Carreteras de Cuba (Road map of Cuba). Ediciones GEO, Havana 2011 - ISBN 959-7049-21-X
  2. 1 2 3 Guije.com. Santa Clara. [(in Spanish)
  3. ↑ 1540672039 Báez on OpenStreetMap
  4. ↑ 281653018 Báez railway station on OpenStreetMap
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