CubaPLUS Magazine

It is called Farallones de Moa and you have to think of a rural community located south-southwest of the municipality of Moa, belonging to the Cuchillas del Toa mountain range, very close to legendary towns such as Yateras and Sagua de Tánamo, Cayo Grande, the Nuevo Mundo dam, and the impressive Alejandro de Humboldt National Park.

A land where the vegetation is usually so dense that it has been called jungle, with all its letters, although in Cuba there are no tropical jungles in the style of the Amazon or the Congo Basin. They say that they began to know each other better after the construction of the Nuevo Mundo dam, especially in the area for the relocation of the people displaced by the engineering entity, in order to give them safe protection.

They extend with their karst elevations for about 57.5 square km this beautiful vegetal and zoological domain recognized as a reign of Cuban biodiversity, a territory where there are settlements, economic activity, splendid wildlife and cultural traditions legendary that are still innovative and develop in the midst of the simplicity and humility of the Cuban countryside.

withAgriculture strives to be sustainable and respectful of the nature, in the midst of awareness and learning processes, is the fork that supports the economic projects of the region, with emphasis on the harvest of coffee, cocoa, and other varied food crops. Its residents like to make fiber crafts, natural ones such as guaniquiqui and yarey, very flexible and resistant, very useful in furniture and baskets.

The Moa cliff community is a very representative place of the called nature tourism because it combines very beautiful landscapes, of a incredible greenery, with jewels of flora, but of fauna that in the theme of birds are considered anthological. However, although in other times an activity was developed there of notorious economy based on the exploitation of forest resources. Fundamentally, it is considered a territory that still has a lot to show in the development of sustainable lines conceived today, based on studies and the establishment of protectionist laws.

In that give and take, life goes by in those parts, caring and enjoying nature and the culture created there. It seems that the motto of the assets that move there is to protect biodiversity, and encourage culture and local development. And luckily proves that everything is going that way, not without difficulties.