Viñales Valley
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How it came to be
The Viñales Valley is a karst valley in the Sierra de los Órganos near the western tip of Cuba. Rounded limestone hills called mogotes rise from the valley floor like islands, some up to 300 metres high.
The fertile soil and climate have long supported livestock and crops, above all tobacco. Tobacco is still grown by hand in much the same way as centuries ago. The villages mix the cultures of indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans and their descendants, and Spanish settlers, and this shows in their buildings, crafts and music.
The valley became a national monument in 1979 and was inscribed in 1999. On the cliff of a mogote called Pita is the Mural of Prehistory, 120 metres high and 160 metres long, painted by Leovigildo González Morillo, director of cartography at the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
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