Politic and government

Matanzas Industries

Important centers of great weight for the economy of the province and the country are located in the Municipality, among which the following stand out: CTE "Antonio Guiteras", the Matanzas Fuel Trading Company with a deep water dock, Conformat Company , Bellotex, Gardis, EMPAI, among others, which make Matanzas the main economic power of the province.

Matanzas is the second modern city in America due to the criteria used in its foundation. It was thought, drawn, raised on the ground and brought its first inhabitants from the Canary Islands. In this sense it is a city made in reverse, with elements of modern urban layout. The Spaniards arrived in a damaged boat. When the Indians carried them to shore, they were suddenly thrown into the water, drowning most of them. The survivors were hanged on a kapok tree. Three years later, in November 1513, another group of Spaniards arrived and learned of the killing of their companions by the mouth of two surviving and captive women. They started calling the place “Bahía de la Matanza”

The name "Matanzas" comes from an incident that occurred in the bay, in September 1510, the first contact of the Indians with the conquerors.

The city of Matanzas, which sits on the edge of a bay with calm waters and on undulating hills that cross three rivers, has been defined by several names, since its birth in 1693, "Sleeping Beauty", "The Cuban Venice" for its bridges or the "Athens of Cuba", land of poets.

In various investigations the person giving a reference moves to all of a process pertaining to the roots of the nation, culture and identity, his origin, permanence and I collide with the intangible patrimony of the city of bridges, Matanzas Athens of Cuba.
Legends that make reference to aboriginal culture in Matanzas. These human groups in spite of his extermination like part of the process of conquests and colonization reached humanity, to the nation, to the local history, to the matanceridad, idiomatic points, way of life, beliefs religiousness and culture, myths among others.
The India Dormida, a singular legend that he permits is to know aspects related with nature, the woman and his paper within the aboriginal community, sentiments, religious beliefs totemistas, words aborigines, economic activities, social division of work in the collectivity among another elements,.
The previous analysis reflects in:
And Cibayara, comprehensive, he heard his son's history of labia third time around: “Baiguana was a very beautiful woman that was maddening the men because he searched he to all and he delivered he to all Baiguana, the fact that he lived when Yucayo's bay was dry and he was like a big valley and green with a long river that was fed of another rivers, was obliged to reside very far away of the coast. But all men were going to Baiguana, and fishing and hunting were abandoned and the sown fields of cassava, of corn and sweet potato got lost . The headman of that time, Maguana, Jibacabuya, that the more powerful affluent came from the long river, in order to talk to him to the God Murciélago's hydrant and to take counsel with him went to the river; In order that the God indicate him how resolving the beautiful and ardent Baiguana's subject.
This story expresses :
“ And the headman Maguana took of gift a magical fish to Baiguana, caught under instructions of the God Murciélago at the river Jibacabuya. And Baiguana ate it and when the moon was in the top he lay down to sleep in front of his cabin looking at the Moon Pero when the Sun knocked down his arrows of blood on the land, Baiguana had become gigantic the of stone Baiguana right now only was a mountain with form of asleep woman Was the India Dormida.
Nine years had happened . Yumurí was dead, embraced to his loved Albahoa, within the river's the insides Babonao ( today Yumurí ).
Now Yucayo had a young headman: Guacumao. The Y also had a beautiful woman with blood of fire, like the converted Baiguana mountain. That woman, of some nineteen years, was the irresistible Aibamaya.
In them besides it is possible to identify the social hierarchization that was existing in communities aborigines matanceras, toponymic names, some which they have disappeared of and that other ones have taken his place from of, as well as the existence of symbols.
Legends aborigines the matanceras provide a capable tool to contribute elements to the growth of interest for the study of the intangible patrimony of the locality and the nation.