Baconao Park, Cuba

Get to know the Baconao Park in Santiago de Cuba, home to multiple attractions and a unique and valuable landscape.

Baconao Park, Santiago de Cuba
© Sol de Cuba

The Baconao Park is located in the eastern part of Cuba in the south of the province of Santiago de Cuba and it is a natural reserve considered a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1987.

Baconao Park
© Sol de Cuba

This place was home to Cuban aborigines a long time ago and it is one of their legends that gives this place its name. It is said that an indigenous boy who lived in these lands learned to play music with the snails in the lagoon because he taught him a magical tree called Bacona. The boy who always stood in the shade of the tree to delight his neighbors became known as Baconao and this one day he disappeared never to return. What would never disappear would be the echoes of the music produced by the snails that rumbled through the vegetation of the area, which is why it began to be called Baconao.

Its 84,985 acres are mainly divided into three zones: the Plateau of Santiago de Cuba, the Sierra de La Gran Piedra and the plateau of Santa María de Loreto. Apart from its incredible biological wealth, visiting this place is worth it for the large number of attractions it offers. From the ruins of the coffee plantations built by Franco-Haitian immigrants who dominated the entire place to the Valley of Prehistory with life-size figures of dinosaurs, mammoths and tigers, saber teeth, passing through the Botanical Garden and its mosaic of thousand colors made up of exotic flowers or the National Transportation Museum and its incredible historical vehicles.

Also the variety of natural landscapes is wonderful. The Baconao Lagoon, La Gran Piedra and the beaches bathed by the Caribbean Sea are unique geographical features, home to endemic Cuban species of incomparable beauty and an exuberant nature that offers unforgettable views.

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Santiago de Cuba

What to see:

Museums:

Siboney

Parque Baconao (Baconao Park)

El Cobre

Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Cobre

Pico Turquino

Museo de la Plata (Silver Museum)

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