Perico

Perico is a municipality and city within the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located south of Marti, north of Colon and east of Jovellanos. The municipality is divided into the barrios of Altamisal, Norte, Quintana, Roque, Sur and Tinguaro. It counts the hamlets of Espana Republicana, which means Republican Spain, and Maximo Gomez, named after the army commander in Cuban War of Independence. Perico changed into based in 1874 near a garrison of the Spanish Colonial Civil Guard.

The call become modified in 1885 to Miguel de Cervantes, then restored to Perico in 1899. In 2004, the municipality of Perico had a population of 31,147. With a complete region of 278 km2 , it has a population density of 112.0/km2. Perico is crossed by using the Carretera Central toll road and counts a railway station of the principle line from Havana to Santiago de Cuba. It lies inside the southeastern area of the island, some 870 km southeast of the Cuban capital of Havana.