Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
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The Zapata Swamp will host Turnat 2019
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The Zapata Swamp will host Turnat 2019
The underwater beauty of Cuba is among the attractions of the XII Edition of the Nature Tourism Event, Turnat-2019, will take place from September 24 to 28 in the south / western Cuban region, Zapata Swamp.
The site was declared a Biosphere Reserve in 2000 and a Ramsar site a year later, as it houses the best conserved wetland in the insular Caribbean.
This territory has an area of approximately 10 thousand 500 square kilometers, is located in the south of the province of Matanzas, about 180 kilometers southeast of Havana, and stands out for its exceptional richness of flora and fauna.
This affirmation supports more than 900 varieties of vegetables, 160 of birds, including three endemics: the hen of Santo Tomás, ferminia and swamp goat, and numerous species of mammals, fish, amphibians and reptiles such as the Cuban crocodile.
For Turnat, the biennial meeting on nature tourism in Cuba that we welcome for the second time, we designed two excursion proposals about local history and charcoal production, typical of the dinner economy, said Larena, a commercial specialist for the company. touristic Ecotur.
He recalled that the Zapata Swamp was the scene in April 1961, of bloody combats of the Cuban revolutionary forces led by the leader Fidel Castro from the place itself, against an armed mercenary invasion,organized and financed by the United States.
The adventure was defeated in less than 72 hours, and went down in history as the first American military defeat in the Americas.
“This important part of our history and also of the continental historiography we will also expose it, especially when the swamp was a territory more than forgotten before January 1, 1959,” said Larena.
Precisely in Bay of Pigs, where the mercenaries had their last bastion and from which they tried to flee by the sea to get to safety, a hotel with the same name will be built that will welcome the professionals, connoisseurs and ecotourism lovers attending Turnat-2019.
Roberto Pons, deputy director of the facility that came into operation in 1962, explained that an important group of rooms will be rescued and all the rooms remodeled, while the central module, the kitchen and the luminaires will be rehabilitated.
for recreation of customers, will expand the aquatic proposals and in particular diving.
“As an added value, specialists are working on the completion of fiber optic tracing to improve communications in the municipality, “he added, with information from the Central American and Caribbean Digital Newspaper.
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