Agramonte (Jagüey Grande) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Agramonte
Village
Church of Agramonte in 1925
Agramonte (black dot) within the municipality of Jagüey Grande (red) and Cuba
Agramonte Location in Cuba
Country	Cuba
Province	Matanzas
Municipality	Jagüey Grande
Founded	1859
Elevation	140 m (460 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	10,502
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)

Agramonte is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Jagüey Grande, Matanzas Province. With a population of 10,502, it is the most populated village in the municipality after Jagüey.

History

Founded in 1859 with the name of Cuevitas, it was renamed after Ignacio Agramonte, a Cuban revolutionary and patriot during the Ten Years' War (1868-1878). Until the 1976 reform, Agramonte was an autonomous municipality that extended in the northern area of the municipal territory of Jagüey Grande.

Geography

Agramonte is located in the middle of an agricultural plain, between Perico and Jagüey Grande (both 17 km far). It is 20 km far from Jovellanos, 25 from Colón, 28 from Pedro Betancourt, 38 from Calimete, and 72 from Matanzas.

Transport

The village is crossed in the middle by the Road 222 Jagüey-Perico, and is 20 km in the north of A1 motorway. It counts a railway station on the Havana-Güines-Aguada-Cienfuegos line that is also served by a regional service from Matanzas.

See also

In Spanish: Agramonte (Cuba) para niños