A mere 3 km from the National Highway, the main focus is on here am a resident the staff of the army and government militias during the Bay of Pigs invasion (or invasion of the Bay of Pigs, as it is also known), in that sense Command can visit the Historical Museum of the FAR.

You can also make a visit to the sugar mill, the old slave quarters, the railway workshops of the sugar factory and to hire a ride on a tourist coach drawn by a locomotive 1913, with a distance of 4 km.

Boca de Guamá

The resort Boca de Guama receives every day thousands of domestic and foreign visitors who decide to reach the Cienaga de Zapata to experience the natural beauty and history of this territory, located south of the province of Matanzas. Among its local dishes, found as a feature crocodile meat.

This is almost obligatory visit to the Crocodile Farm, established in 1962 with the aim of protecting the species, can take photos of copies of various sizes.

Laguna del Tesoro

Access is by boat from Boca del Guama through a canal surrounded by thick vegetation.

The Laguna del Tesoro is a beautiful natural lake of 9.0 km2 in area and average depth 4m, surrounded by unspoilt vegetation and abundant trout. With crystal clear waters and stunning nature, provides a beautiful frame to contemplative tourism, sport fishing for trout (catch release mode) and nature tourism.

Guamá

It is a resort located in the middle of the Laguna del Tesoro, with 49 cottages, disco and restaurant, has been built with all conveniences on stilts over the lagoon and linked by bridges, right next to a replica of a Taino village (first habitants of Cuba) Aboriginal where they can be seen with thatched huts numerous life-size sculptures of Aboriginal performing various daily tasks (work of sculptor Rita Longa) and recreate life here in a distant past .

Exceptional for contemplative tourism, the golden trout fishing (catch release), rides rowboats or motor, a site that allows a trip to the aboriginal culture of the island.

Playa Larga

It offers the usual attractions of a beautiful beach , one of the best on the coast of the Caribbean Sea on the island and where also a magnificent coral reef with no marine depths suitable for diving .

War scenario of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 on the road to La Boca there are over 80 memorials of combatants killed in the fighting.

Playa Girón

Located at the east entrance of the Bay of Pigs and 34 km SE of Long Beach, Playa Girón remembers his name to pirate Gilbert Giron French origin who took refuge in the area back in the seventeenth century.

Good beach and good seabed suitable for diving, war scenario Landing Brigade 2005 in April 1961, here there is an interesting museum (Museo Girón) dedicated to the Bay of Pigs invasion.

La Cueva de los Peces

Located between Playa Larga and Playa Giron is a kind of deep cenote with crystal clear waters containing infinite variety of fish, is a great attraction for scuba divers.

Overall diving Zapata Swamp is made from the same coast in more than 14 known sites, largely diving is linked to ancient cave systems in the area whose roofs collapsed.

Senderos La Salina y Santo Tomás

Highly demanded by tourists interested in bird watching, both migratory species as endemic to the island.

In the Cienaga de Zapata, covering 300,000 hectares of forests and mangroves , declared a Unesco Biosphere Reserve and the largest wetland in the Caribbean , you can see 258 species of birds , including 23 species of 26 originating in Cuba .

Among them are the “gallinuela of St. Thomas” and “ferminia” birds considered more restricted habitat on the planet, and the “zunzuncito” or “bird fly”, which is the smallest in the world.