cubancimarron

Only a few ruins remain of the Mariana Grajales mill, (named in the late 1990s after the mother of the Cuban patriot Antonio Maceo), as is the case for most of the mills that roared during the heyday of sugar production on the island.

Sagua la Grande straddles the Sagua river in the north central region of the Villa Clara province. The river, the second longest in Cuba (the Cauto is number one) used to be navigable in the 19th century.