The first time history mentions a western region of Cuba ;Guaniguanico; was on 1510. In those memories was pointed the hospitable and generous character of the caciques, who received the surviving shipwrecks during the conquest of Central America. Since then, and even when the local Indians were extinguished from these lands, Pinar del Rio is shown, to the visitor;eyes, supportive and altruistic.
Its population, of 592 851, inhabitants welcomes a region that always surprises and shows its best attractions from one end to another.
The original inhabitants of Pinar del Rio arrived to its shores 3500 years ago; Guanahatabey and Siboneyes were representatives of the pre-farmer Cubans. At the arrival of Christopher Columbus the current Vueltabajo was divided into three groups: Guanahacabibes, Guaniguanico and Marien. The newcomers from Europe translated this original division into Indian provinces.
Since 1514, with the conquest of the western side of Cuba by Panfilo de Narvaez, starts the European acknowledgment of the actual space of the Province of Pinar del Rio. Diego Velazquez founded on the Cuyaguateje river mouth, the Farm Guaniguanico, which served as supply, along with the first Havana (south), to the ships that directed their prow to the conquest of America.
Livestock development, with the occupation of space in herds and corrals, was the economic star of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Vueltabajo. From the end of this last century, the penetration of the vega starts and began the transformation of the natural economy towards the mercantile economy. At 1600 was founded the Curato de Guane, a point of departure of the further development of the territory.
On 1774, with the creation of the jurisdictions in Cuba, emerge a group of territorial and administrative divisions that conform the Vueltabajo territory (at west of La Habana). This way, the Philippine jurisdiction was born, honoring its founder the General Governor of Philip Island of Fondesviela, Marques de la Torre; this territory was formed by the spaces from the west riverside to the southern palaces and Pan de Guajaibon at north, until the western side of Cabo de San Antonio.
On August 6th, 1863 the locals request to the kings of Spain the title of city, and these grant it by Royal Order the 10 of September of 1867.
Since the colonial period, the imaginary borders, mark a space where, thanks to the excellent lands, weather, the warmth of the waters, the constancy and love of the Veguero, along with his family, have become the land of the best tobacco leaf in the world. Since then, this product characterizes the economy of Pinar del Rio.
Its population, of 592 851, inhabitants welcomes a region that always surprises and shows its best attractions from one end to another.
The original inhabitants of Pinar del Rio arrived to its shores 3500 years ago; Guanahatabey and Siboneyes were representatives of the pre-farmer Cubans. At the arrival of Christopher Columbus the current Vueltabajo was divided into three groups: Guanahacabibes, Guaniguanico and Marien. The newcomers from Europe translated this original division into Indian provinces.
Since 1514, with the conquest of the western side of Cuba by Panfilo de Narvaez, starts the European acknowledgment of the actual space of the Province of Pinar del Rio. Diego Velazquez founded on the Cuyaguateje river mouth, the Farm Guaniguanico, which served as supply, along with the first Havana (south), to the ships that directed their prow to the conquest of America.
Livestock development, with the occupation of space in herds and corrals, was the economic star of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Vueltabajo. From the end of this last century, the penetration of the vega starts and began the transformation of the natural economy towards the mercantile economy. At 1600 was founded the Curato de Guane, a point of departure of the further development of the territory.
On 1774, with the creation of the jurisdictions in Cuba, emerge a group of territorial and administrative divisions that conform the Vueltabajo territory (at west of La Habana). This way, the Philippine jurisdiction was born, honoring its founder the General Governor of Philip Island of Fondesviela, Marques de la Torre; this territory was formed by the spaces from the west riverside to the southern palaces and Pan de Guajaibon at north, until the western side of Cabo de San Antonio.
On August 6th, 1863 the locals request to the kings of Spain the title of city, and these grant it by Royal Order the 10 of September of 1867.
Since the colonial period, the imaginary borders, mark a space where, thanks to the excellent lands, weather, the warmth of the waters, the constancy and love of the Veguero, along with his family, have become the land of the best tobacco leaf in the world. Since then, this product characterizes the economy of Pinar del Rio.