It was one of those many lands of oblivion that have swarmed in the New World, at the mercy of plundering of others and its territorial isolation. Located on the coastal strip of the mountainous region of Nibujón, Baracoa, in areas of today's Alejandro de Humboldt. Before 1959, its simple breakwater was the only possible link from the municipality of Moa, when receiving travelers by sea, in a place with the absence of passable mountain roads that fatally imprisoned the humble locals.In general, workers from large estates and forestry sawmills lived there. which were already owned by American settlers who took advantage and exploited the precious wood of those dreamlike evergreen forests . The most ancient ones were dedicated to the hard production of charcoal from mangroves in inhumane conditions. Total isolation was abolished and life changed from the 60s onwards. of the 20th century, although the locals consider that they have dreams to fulfill in its distant paradise environment.
The magical-looking bay and the area's vegetable beds in rich and highly biodiverse ecosystems due to the work and grace of nature or if you want, of creation, but it was also land of poor and forgotten communities, survivors of a legendary history tornado with narratives of colonization, raids of corsairs and pirates, buried treasures and the presence also of Taíno aborigines, of whose existence there are vestiges in those parts.
Stunning to look at, Taco Bay is described as a bag cove, facing the Atlantic Ocean, in the north of the aforementioned National Park. Experts consider that its seabed is among the best preserved in the country and in the terrestrial environment adjacent to the coast where red and white mangroves grow, the patabán and llana, species that only here cohabit in Cuban forests within the same ecosystem. An exclusive feature of the mangrove is a small cay formed by volcanogenic-sedimentary tuffs, which in an incredible way have survived a long time, providing nutrients to a soil where it grows and a vegetal formation develops with plants of hard and brittle leaves. Such plant rarity seems to leave the message of resilience and constant transformation of natural life, defying time and active elements.The bay also serves as a shelter for the only herbivorous marine mammal living in Cuba: the manatee, a protected and very cared for species, subject to threats to its survival. They are also very observable near the trunks of the mangroves there are numerous colonies of oysters. They add wonder to that primitive environment with the unique squawks of the parrots that humans often call chatter. Beautiful and present is the chirping of many Cuban birds such as canaries, bluebirds, nightingales, the clacking of carpenters, and typical singing of blackbirds, seagulls and other species that nest in certain times of the year.
Almost everything is typical and native, with the naked beauty of humility offering in an artisanal way with resources from the almost virginal nature. For example, the so-called atarazanas, ranches of indigenous origin covered with ropes of cupey and roofed with guano leaves, where fishermen protect their cayucas (rustic boats) from the wear and tear of rain and sun.