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Village
Coat of arms
Calabazar de Sagua (red) in Encrucijada (orange) in Villa Clara (yellow)
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Country	Cuba
Province	Villa Clara
Municipality	Encrucijada
Founded	1865
Elevation	5 m (16 ft)
Population  (2011)
• Total	7,912
Time zone	UTC-5 (EST)
Area code(s)	+53-422

Calabazar de Sagua, also shortened as Calabazar, is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Encrucijada, in Villa Clara Province, Cuba. In 2011 it had a population of 7,912.

History

Founded in 1865, it was part of the neighboring municipality of Sagua la Grande until the 1977 administrative reform.

Geography

Located on a rural plain in the middle of its province, Calabazar lies between Encrucijada (4.5 km southeast), El Purio (4 km northeast) and Mata (4.5&km southwest). It is 17 km from Cifuentes, 30 to Vueltas, 32 to Santa Clara, 37 to Sagua la Grande, 40 to Camajuaní, 50 to Remedios and 58 to Placetas and Caibarién.

Transport

The village is crossed in the middle by the "Circuito Norte" (CN) state highway, the 2nd longest one in the island. It counts a train station, Calabazar-Mata, located in the nearby village of Mata, on the Camajuaní-Encrucijada-Cifuentes (to Sagua) branch line.

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 5:00am buses go to Santa Clara. From Sunday to Friday at 6:30pm and 8:15pm they also go to Santa Clara.

Education

Schools in Calabazar include:

• José Martí Primary School
• Antonio Maceo Primary School
• Neptalí Martínez CM
• José Manuel Fuertes Jiménez Special School
• Antonio Guiteras CEA

Notable people

• Onelio Jorge Cardoso (1914–1986), writer

See also

In Spanish: Calabazar de Sagua para niños

• Parrandas
• Municipalities of Cuba
• List of cities in Cuba