Camaguey

Camaguey is a city and municipality in primary Cuba and is the kingdom's third-biggest city with greater than 321,000 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Camaguey Province. Camagüey became founded as Santa María del Puerto del Principe in 1514, by means of Spanish colonists led by using Diego Velazquez de Cuéllar at a vicinity now called Nuevitas at the northern coast. It become one of the seven authentic settlements based in Cuba via the Spanish. The agreement became moved inland in 1528 to the website of a Taino village named Camaguey. The village may additionally had been named for a neighborhood leader, or perhaps for a tree endemic to the vicinity.

The new town was built with a confusing lay-out of winding alleys. There are many blind alleys and forked streets that lead to squares of different sizes. One explanation is that this was accomplished by design, to make the town easier to shield from any raiders; by the identical model, the cause that there is most effective one exit from the metropolis became that have to pirates ever go back and succeed in coming into the metropolis, it'd be viable for nearby inhabitants to entrap and kill them.