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Travelers coming on Santa Clara Tours must visit Loma del Capiro, Santa Clara. It is one of the popular Tourist Attractions in Santa Clara. Located in the most central region of the province, Santa Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara. Loma del Capiro, Santa Clara, a group of three small peaks gained worldwide historic significance after Che Guevara used it as hideout and command center to invade the city in the Battle of Santa Clara during the Cuban Revolution.
History
With a strategic location overlooking the city, Capiro’s Hill with Che’s Battle of Santa Clara Monument was decisive for the rebels in their quest to take down the Batista regime in 1959.
Nature
Apart from the great historic importance of Loma del Capiro in Santa Clara, there’s also a great natural, scientific and tourist interest attached to the place.
Chicxulub Impact
The sediments at Loma del Capiro in Santa Clara provided new evidence about the Chicxulub impact. The Chicxulub impact refers to the huge meteor that hit the Yucatan Peninsula in the Cretaceous era and is believed to have played a significant role in the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
A Natural Shelter
Several endemic species of the Cuban savanna and forests can be found on the north slope of Loma del Capiro, Santa Clara. A plantation of Tamarind trees is seen in the south. Tamarind is the symbolic tree of the city, representing its foundation.
Tourism
Loma del Capiro in Santa Clara was declared as National Historic Site of Cuba in 1990 along with the museum-monument of the armored train. A staircase was built in order to reach the top of the hill where a metal sculpture by Jose Delarra, symbolizing the will to unify the Cuban nation, is resting in a green marble base.
Online information on Loma del Capiro, Santa Clara is provided by travel.mapsofworld.
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