MSc. Julio Antonio Amorín Ponce.
The tourism had its beginning in the Marsh of Zapata among the years 1955-1956, when several wealthy North Americans established a great business taking advantage of the potentialities of our biggest natural reservoir: Lagoon of the Treasure!
The northern Mr. Thomas Turner, a campaign began in Cuba and USA with the purpose of attracting tourists lovers of the hunt and the fishing. Then it filmed a film documentary of their adventures for the basin, showing mainly with it the potentialities of the territory of the legendary lagoon for the fishing of the trout.
This way, looking for the feasibility of such a business, they built a narrow channel first of approximately 3 kilometers of longitude to arrive at the famous lagoon, then the foreigners brought an aquatic aerobote like half of transportation, lastly they built two floating houses in the key "The Corúas" almost in the center of the lagoon by way of cabins, which could be moved by the whole acuatorio after being towed until the wanted place. This cabins had a rent of $100 daily dollars for the client.
When triumphing the Cuban Revolution the First of January of 1959 it was socialized and it diversified the tourism in the Marsh of Zapata, thanks to the construction of new and quicker communication roads like they were the cases of the pedraplenes: central "Australia"-Long Beach-Girón, central "Covadonga"-San Blas-Girón, Yaguaramas-Horquitas-San Blas-Girón. Those three roads facilitated to build tourist centers and they also allowed the accessibility of the whole population and of tourists of the socialist countries to the same ones.
After November 5 1959 opened up the traffic for those pedraplenes, the following establishments and tourist villages were built:
• Cafeteria-Restaurant "The Mouth". December 23 1960.
• Tourist Villa of Long Beach. July 27 1961. At 10:00 o'clock AM.
• Tourist Villa of Beach Girón. July 27 1961. Among 2:00 o'clock-4:00 PM.
• Tourist Villa of "Guamá" July .18 1962.
• Cafeteria-Restaurant "Pious Cua". 1963.
And although for the law 636 of November 20 1959 the was created "National Institute of the Tourist Industry" (INIT) who had like ends the politics's of tourist development programming; the execution of the plans of tourist development of the Revolutionary Government; the conservation and development of the Cuban natural wealth, with tourist significance; the protection of the historical and cultural patrimony of the Nation, outstanding to the ends of the tourism and the removal and progressive superación of all the causes of the Cuban tourist underdevelopment. However, it was the Park National Peninsula of Zapata (PNPZ) - Special Plan to develop integrally to the Marsh of Zapata in the economic thing - social and cultural, with certain environmentalist shades-who it organized and he/she administered the tourism in her from October of 1960 until the year 1971.
After that Special Plan the appears "Complex Tourist Marsh of Zapata" directed by Julio Remigio Monsoon Díaz and a great community where they figured River Socorro, Franco, Humberto Ojeda, Rubén González, Mario Díaz, Raúl Alfonso, among others. Then the name of Company Tourist Marsh of Zapata would arrive and later other structures would come until arriving to today, where CUBANACÁN is the regulator of the tourism in the Great Humedal.
The modalities tourist initials (up to 1980) developed in this extensive territory non trasgredieron the nautical one (The Mouth-Guamá and fishing cooperative), "sun and beach", he/she fishes sport using ships ferrocementos that furrowed heading for the Archipelago of the Canarreos, lodging in the three tourist villages, observation of crocodiles in captivity and it visits to the museum of Beach Girón.
In the decade of 1980 those appear "Specialized Activities": observation of birds, observation of sinkholes, diving, championships of fishing of the trout in the Lagoon of the Treasure, he/she fishes fly with the capture modality and it looses. Everything thanks to the creative initiatives and efforts of that Address of the Tourist Company and of the decisive collaboration of the specialists of the "Natural National Park" I attach to the Agricultural Municipal Company. They studied, they conditioned and they calculated the loads and environmental impacts of the areas for the tourist administration of the natural patrimony, those that have become emblemáticas from then on, being the cases of:
• The Saline of Brito.
• Guamutal.
• Laughs Hatiguanico.
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But they coincide most of our specialists that still the tourist modalities in the Marsh of Zapata don't embrace or he/she is not given a good treatment in correspondence with the potentialities of the territory; for what to speak of descomercialización of the Product Tourist Marsh of Zapata an injustice is, since the natural and historical wealth of the Great Humedal is here with all its what a splendor does it lack then to increase the affluence of tourists? Maybe premeditation in the commercialization, more will, more interest, more knowledge of our tourist product on the part of the workers and leaders of this sector; because the geographical location of the Marsh of Zapata is also enviable and it constitutes another strength: among three big and established "tourist poles" as Havana, Shipyard and Cienfuegos! Entonces…a to work to show to the turoperadores, travel agencies and to as much as specialist of the endogenous or exogenous tourism exists, the tremendous qualities of the "Product Tourist Marsh of Zapata" yes, because the tourism should be observed this way in the Cuenca, as an everything, 100 natural% and with a history that recreates the four periods of the History of Cuba!
PRESENT TIME OF THE TOURISM IN MARSH DE HALF-BOOT
STATE TOURISM
Although toward the year 1985 became good intents of inserting the "Product Tourist Marsh of Zapata" in the international market, it turned out to be the decade of 1990 the one that established the radical viraje in the ways of tourist administration here.
From the appearance of the "Special Period" (1990), where they were had that internal political several flexibilizar of national character, among those that he/she was the decriminalization of the dollar and to motivate the foreign tourism coming from capitalist countries to capture vital foreign currencies and also, since the Sixth Congress of the PCC was developed (16 at April 19 2011), which had as main topic: the analysis and approval of the Limits of the Economic and Social Politics of the Party and the Revolution. In the one that was conceived and it accepted a new form of economic administration: The not state or private! The Marsh of Zapata has been another: Beach Girón, Long Beach and The Caletón of Happiness were object of a metamorphosis in the constructive, cultural and axiológico.
The hotel and very important facilities, the preparation of the workers and leaders of the state tourist sector were better and chords with the demands of the international tourism, thanks to the work of the "School of Hotelería and Tourism" located in our territory that unfortunately today it already finished like generating center of superación and training, alone some professors are allowed to see carrying the didactics and methodology in a traveling way for the different tourist institutions. To our way of analyzing the historical processes, we are presented it as a setback of the local tourism as for the aspiration of evolving of a "Optional Tourist" to a "I Dedicate Tourist" in Marsh of Zapata.
Given the potentialities of the territory in the natural, historical and cultural, today they are developed in the state tourist sector the following modalities:
• Observation of birds with the company of specialized guides belonging to the Natural National Park.
• Senderismo.
• Fishes fly. Modality captures and it looses.
• Diving and snorkeling.
• Observation and explanation of the Cuban crocodile in captivity.
• Lodging in the three tourist villages and in the Batey Don Pedro.
• Visits to the museums of Beach Girón and The Coal Christmas Eve with Fidel.
• Travels in boat of seven kilometers of journey between The Mouth and Guamá.
• Sun and beach.
• Visits the hatcheries of the manjuarí, biajaca and parrots.
• Visits to different "tourist centers of traffic or of highway" where the client can rest momentarily of the long trips and at the same time to enthuse with the drinks and Cuban foods.
• Visits to Tip Partridge and Good Creek. "Where the color of the waters transports us to the sky."
TOURISM NOT STATE OR PRIVATE
It is a relatively new social economic phenomenon in Cuba and in the Marsh of Zapata in the particular thing. Starting from the historical joint previously described in the decade of 1990, several intrepid people and that they could capture certain initial financial capital, they were devoted to foment the business of "lease of houses" to foreign tourists, in Beach Girón, Long Beach and The Caletón of Happiness.
Today, 2017, they have reached these "inns" and the deprived restaurants such an importance that one cannot speak of tourism in the Marsh of Zapata without mentioning them.
The visual one of the Great Humedal had changed positively to all the long of the Central highway "Australia"-Pálpite-Long Beach-Girón. Built houses are observed with good pleasure and an improvement in their environment, where they already go appearing sidewalks, gardens and very important, concern for the improvement of the "tourist image", where the sanitation and the care of the environment owe you "to steal" the protagonism.
To our way of seeing the things, this phenomenon of the private tourism is positive because besides adding new offers to the client, it can personalize the tourist service since the attention it relapses on few consumers, while the state tourism is helpless of making it to be given the process to the inverse one. The prices of the products that are offered are smaller than those of the state service, since the owner looks for to diminish the costs and it almost always achieves it when not being exposed to political economic rigid. The comfort of the lease houses is in the generality of the very good cases, able to compete with the state hotel facilities. The owners of inns and palates pay to the revenue with montos anything worthless, for what you/they come to make a new source of financial revenues for the arks of the State.
Certain it is that this non state sector has become in kind of a "hybrid" preocupante for some and esperanzador for others. Much care will be had as for the treatment of this "it Reforms" (cuentapropismo) that is not new in its conception and part of the own Leninism, because if certain it is that the "man thinks like he lives" (postulate Marxist) and for ende, that that has a business where the circulating currency in him is 25 times adult to which a state worker perceives, it is logical then the concern of most as for that it is gestating inside the Cuban socialism the "main cell" of the capitalism: Private property! Who facilitated the appearance of the bourgeoisie like dominant class of that Social Economic Formation.
For the author, now that it develops the pluriempleo (university professor, journalist and lodging agent) in Marsh of Zapata, the concern should be centered in the "treatment" on the part of the state institutions and revolutionaries inside of or outside of the non state sector, toward that emergent segment of the Cuban society. We should not have him fear to the "it reforms" in yes, we should worry more about the inertia and the distancing toward that new economic administration. We should come closer more with concrete proposals to their informal leaders, to the children, adolescents and young, to those that want a prosperous and sustainable country, in short, to contribute among all (state and private) to the development of the tourism in the Marsh of Zapata.
As university professor we give priority to the work axiológico with the present and residents' of the Great Humedal future generations that yes it should be a concern! Our children, adolescents and youths can it turns influenced by ways of thinking and of incompatible performance with our system of values, behaved by clients with incorrect behaviors as well as they exist in other countries of the World. Those cenagueritos every day is exposed to it to cohabit in the lease houses and restaurants. Another problem is presented when the infants and adolescents arrive to superficial but very objective valuations of being won the sustenance working in the private business, and not to follow the continuity of studies toward technician's career half or university, many times listens to them: for what reason will it serve me to study if I can sustain myself without making it?
Then, the parents and owners of business cannot lose of view that the client comes in search of the observation of our rich nature, but also of the cultural relationship with the town that visits. We should have every day working in our business to more learned, prepared people that can respond with depth the queries of the tourists, and it alone it is achieved through the schools and the conscious study. Does the one that visits us want to know of the customs, foods, dances, histories, vocabularies, etc. of the town and if our children, adolescents and do youths absorb more the exogenous extranjerizado that the endogenous thing that tipifica? And if our new generations begin him to give much more importance to the material thing than to the material symbiosis and ideas? Good, that it is a "pathology" that has social answer: I work person to systemic, dynamic person and moderated to the groups etarios! Where he/she doesn't have space the hollow speech and to work stereotyped, where the activities conjugate the chore of tourist administration with the teaching of the natural, historical and cultural values that he/she stores the Great Marsh of Zapata.
Summarizing, the new economic administration not state it is a positive phenomenon that we owe all to accept, to cohabit and to fraternize with him, seen from the perspective of the tourist development in the territory.
To give treatment to the previous one problematic, the author, as Agent of Lodging inside the Non State Sector, conceived a Project call "Homeland", with which is sought to explain in a scientific way the interrelation nature-history-culture of the Marsh of Zapata. A group of inns has been inserted to the project where the "client is priority and the true historical compass."
A Catalog of Optional Tourist he/she is presented to each client in the inn that preferred, he/she can choose among nine trips that they are offered, it is also explained the places that it will visit, the prices, the hours of the journey, among other details.
The inn benefits because it marks this way a difference among him and the other ones that cannot offer the nine optional. Also, the client has the possibility to diversify her knowledge on the biggest Humedal from the Insular Caribbean when interrelating nature, history and culture in a single trip.
Then remember: The Marsh of Zapata is a summary of natural marvels and of historical events that enthrall, which exercise a such attraction in the visitors that the permanency in her provokes addiction!
When he/she reads or listen the toponym Marsh of Zapata, know you that can have a basin, humedal, natural vastness, an unique resident's singular culture in Cuba for their narrow interrelation with the natural means everything 100% descontaminado and ecstasy propiciador to combat the harmful daily estrés! All those valuable characteristics that it possesses this piece of Cuban floor, facilitate to develop tourist modalities as: I dive, senderismo, observation of birds, historical and cultural trips, it risks, nautical, he/she fishes sport of capture and it looses, more the "oxygenated leisure", since it is the Great Humedal of the Insular Caribbean who possesses the biggest concentration in swamps of Cuba and one of the populated areas in forests of the archipelago.
Everything can verify it it you, walking and retracing the majestic and always attractive Marsh of Zapata through 9 optional tourist that offer him and where the client is the supreme priority; with moderate costs every day and with the company of a guide specialized in this thematic.
We also offer courses or conferences on the history and culture of the Great Humedal in narrow relationship with the natural means; also, bulletins and pamphlets are sold that approach these thematic ones, in Spanish language and English.
Choose with readiness their optional one tourist in the "inn" that preferred, it will be taken from turn to house, a vivencia irrepetible and indelible.
To contact us he/she calls to the telephone 54559627 (Mary).
It can also visit this bill or page in facebook.
CATALOG OF OPTIONAL TOURIST
OPTIONAL TOURIST #1: "FOR THE VICTORY'S PATH"
• will be sold a bulletin with map included on the events of Bay of Pigs and using the own vehicles of the visitors or one rented by them, the guide will explain the general aspects of that geste of 1961. They intend the following historical places:
- Relationship of Long Beach (Collective Tarja). The three combats.
- Tip of Brito (Long Beach). The First Shoot Organized Militiaman.
- Tip Partridge. A genocide.
- The Real Ebony. To the doors of a direct intervention.
- Relationship of Beach Girón. The sacrifice to achieve the victory.
- Museum of Beach Girón. Before, during and after the Events of Bay of Pigs in 1961.
- Ensenada or Beach Girón. Beach bathroom of history.
• The optional one has a duration of 6 hours.
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #2: "FOR THE ROUTE OF THE COAL"
• will be sold a bulletin where all the concerning one is explained to the forest culture, emphasizing in the production of the vegetable coal and the Hispanic contribution to that part of the culture cienaguera. They will be used "cars with animal traction" (horses), reconditioned, set and hired residents of the Council Popular Long Beach as non state workers or another vehicle. He/she intends the following itinerary:
- Highway Connects Long Beach-Good fortune.
- Bay of Pigs.
- I laugh the Shrimps.
- The Channel of Yebra.
- Community of Good fortune.
- Pálpite.
• The journey can take approximately as time 3 hours: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM.
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #3: "SEA, FORESTS AND LEGENDS"
• will be sold a pamphlet where several legends cienagueras and its relationship are narrated with the natural environment. Car will be used with animal traction (horses), reconditioned, set and hired residents of the Council Popular Long Beach as non state workers or another vehicle. He/she intends the following itinerary:
- Connect - Long Beach.
- I laugh The Mouth.
- Beach "The Bedroom."
- Lagoon of the "Rail of the Women."
- The Yanal.
• The journey can take approximately as time 5 hours: 8:30 AM-1:30 PM return to the "inn."
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #4: "TOPONYMS CIENAGUEROS AND SOMETHING MORE"
• will be sold a bulletin with included map and using the own vehicles of the visitors or one rented by them, the guide will explain the toponyms or names characteristic of certain places of the Marsh of Zapata like:
- Good fortune.
- Beach "I Laugh at the Shrimps."
- The Caletón of Happiness.
- Embankment marries of visit of the EFI (The Forest)-portable aserríos.
- Long beach.
- Beach The Machine.
- The Hondones.
- The Sinkhole or Cave of the Fish.
- Tip Partridge.
- Beach Girón-Beach "of the Christ."
• The journey can take approximately as time 6 hours: 8:30 AM-2:30 PM return to the "inn."
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #5: "NATURE AND THE COAL CHRISTMAS EVE WITH FIDEL"
¤ will be sold a bulletin where all the concerning one is explained to the Coal Christmas Eve with Fidel and its natural environment. It will be used "car with animal traction" (horses), reconditioned, set and hired residents of the Council Popular Long Beach as non state workers or another vehicle. He/she intends the following itinerary:
- Highway Long Beach-Beach Schemes It.
- Highway Beach The Machine-The Yanal.
- Lagoon of Facundo.
- The Soplillar.
- The Museum "The Coal Christmas Eve with Fidel."
• The journey can take approximately as time 5 hours: 8:30 AM-1:30 PM return to the "inn."
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #6: "AFTER THE PRINTS OF THE HISPANIDAD"
¤ will be sold a pamphlet where all the concerning one is explained to the migration, permanency, chore and legacy of the Hispanic in the Marsh of Zapata. Using the vehicles of the tourists or one rented by them, intends the following historical journey - cultural:
- Good fortune.
- Channel of Yebra.
- Mario López-Caletón for the interior road.
- Pálpite.
- Beach "The Machine."
- Factory of Payment and mire lagoon.
- Inn. "Day of the hispanidad."
• The journey can take approximately as time 4 hours: 8:30 AM-12:30 PM return to the "inn."
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #7: "I POPULATE AND CULTURE MONTUNA"
¤ will be sold a pamphlet where all the concerning one is explained to the conformation of the town cienaguero and its more distinctive characteristics. Using the own vehicles of the tourists or one rented by them, intends the following historical journey-cultural:
- The Hondones.
- I laugh "The Sábalos."
- The Soplillar.
- Inn. "Day of the cubanía."
¤ The journey can take approximately as time 5 hours: 8:30 AM-1:30 PM return to the "inn."
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #8: "BAY, COAST, CORSICAN AND PIRACY"
¤ will be sold a pamphlet where all the concerning one is explained to the 300 years of Corsican and piracy in the Marsh of Zapata. Marine, terrestrial space and of time that filled from imaginative stories to the folklore cienaguero. Using the vehicle of the tourists or one rented by them, intends a picturesque and pleasant traveled by the whole oriental coast of the Great Humedal:
- The Caletón of Happiness.
- Beach of the River "The Mouth."
- Beach or Creek "The Hen."
- Ensenada and Beach Girón.
- Good creek.
- Creek of English.
¤ The journey can take approximately as time 6 hours: 8:30 AM-2:30 PM return to the "inn."
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
OPTIONAL TOURIST #9: "WALKING AND RETRACING THE MARSH DE HALF-BOOT"
¤ This optional one tourist it can take lodging or it can be carried out in the day with return for Havana or another residence place.
¤ The guide will approach the vehicle of the clients in front of the tourist center "Rural Property", in the vicinity of the National Freeway. A general bulletin will be sold on the Marsh of Zapata, where it is explained the essential characteristics of her with included map and pictures of natural and historical places of the Great Humedal. From this moment the following journey will be made:
- I center tourist "The Mouth."
- Pálpite.
- Long beach.
- The Soplillar.
- The Sinkhole or Cave of The fish.
- Beach Girón.
¤ The distance that he/she mediates from Havana to the Marsh of Zapata is of 155 KM. To The Mouth 162 KM. To Beach Long 172 KM. To Beach Girón 202 KM.
¤ The optional one tourist he/she has a duration approximately of 6 hours.
Telephone 54559627 (Mary).
We wait for it, where the nature increases history!
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