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Emergence of the Towns

About the foundation of Jagüey Grande, it is known that, in 1798, Francisco de Jústiz inherited from his grandfather Ambrosio Zayas Bazán, the San Francisco de Paula hacienda, made up of four leagues of land. In 1804 it was in the hands of Antonio José de los Reyes and soon after it passed to his children.

In 1850, the heirs of Don Mateo de los Reyes were established at the San Francisco de Paula hacienda. They had the objective of founding a town that they called Jagüey Grande because of the existence of a gigantic tree of the species on the site. The town was officially founded on June 25, 1857. Its first houses were nine guano huts and sixty-seven inhabitants.

The Cuevitas paddock, in the Jíquimas Party, appeared with a single building: a mixed shop on the banks of the royal road from Jagüey to Bemba (present Jovellanos), which provided its services to the residents of the Jabaco paddock, and the Morón farms. and Santa Eustaquia, properties very close to these shops.

Cuevitas was founded on December 5, 1859, due to the development of trade between the residents of the Morón and San Joaquín estates. Don Justo Quevedo was the builder of the first houses and in fixing his residence in the place. With the arrival of the railway, the democratic and communications transformations varied markedly.

The current town of Torriente, previously called Claudio, arose in the paddock of the same name as a need to promote trade in the southern area of ​​Macuriges. In 1852, a hamlet was created that later reached greater importance from 1863 with the arrival of the railway.

The area that today occupies the municipality of Jagüey Grande, only after the mid-nineteenth century was invaded by the plantation economy in the 1960s, raised its economic and commercial levels. The peripheral character that Jagüey Grande had in the Colón Plain and the obstacle of the Cienaga de Zapata to the South with its difficult soils, slowed the rapid development of the area.

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