Jaguey Grande

Jaguey Grande, sincerely known as Jaguey, is a metropolis and municipality within the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is positioned east of the Zapata Peninsula, north of the Bahia de Cochinos, along the A1 dual carriageway in the center of the province. The metropolis changed into based in 1840 and become named after the tree Ficus citrifolia, locally named "Jaguey". The municipality turned into traditionally divided into the barrios of Pueblo, Gallardo, Lopez, Murga Sinu and Rovira. Nowadays it counts the metropolis itself and the famous councils of Agramonte, Australia, San José de Marcos and Torriente.

Agramonte, the most populated village, become an self reliant municipality till the 1976 reform. Ficus citrifolia, additionally referred to as the shortleaf fig, large bearded fig or wild banyantree, is a species of banyan local to southern Florida, the Caribbean, Central America, and northern South America south to Paraguay. It is outstanding from the closely related Florida strangler fig particularly via the finer veining inside the leaves. In 2007, the municipality of Jagüey Grande had a populace of 87,771. With a complete region of 882 km2 , it has a populace density of 65.5/km.