Calabazar de Sagua


Calabazar de Sagua, also shortened as Calabazar, is a Cuban village and consejo popular 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, El Purio and Mata. 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" 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 branch line.

Personalities