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 Municipality Jimaguayu

He owes Jimaguayu municipality to your name a voice of the aboriginal toponymy, to the place where he fell in battle Ignacio Agramontes and Loinas the May 11, 1873 and to the realization in that same place of the Assembly House of September 1895 stops among other things they approve a new constitution.

Jimaguayú almost represents 5 % of the extension of the province of Camaguey a full territory of some elevations is that the 200 do not pass over m with rivers of small flows and big savannahs.

The Municipio Jimaguayú is located in the Southeast of the Province of Camaguey, have a territorial extension of 783.42 km2 and a population of 20 470 inhabitants according to information of the OME, being between the least populated municipalities of the Province, having 26,5 inhabitants'density for km2, Camaguey limits North with the municipality and South with the Municipio Najasa West with the municipality Springs for the east with the municipality and the this one with the municipality Sibanicú

The Human System of Asentamientos is composed of 54 settlements, of ellos3 Urban, the 51 rural remainders, 17 settlements are populated of third order, what infers that the Municipality is by majority rural.

Count on 6 Popular Advices (Cross Them, Bidot, Jimaguayú, Nicaragua, Rescate of Sanguily and Contramaestre) in which 45 Circumscriptions and 2 out of Consejo form a group (The Potency and Caracuna).

POPULATION: 20 680 inhabitants; 10 953 men and 9 737 women

URBAN POPULATION: 2 831 INHABITANTS 14.2 %

RURAL POPULATION: 17 163

Have a delicious history based in the fights in different stages of personalities like Ignacio Agramontés and Loinas, Máximo Gómez Báez and Henry Reeve Canoll, that our patriot is notable. Important combats develop in the wars of the 10 years and the one of the 1895 for the sake of attaining the independence of the Spanish metropolis and the abolization of the slavery during the XIXth century. They are notable the Brigadier Julius Sanguily's rescue the October 8, 1871 and the combat Saratoga from 6 to June 9, 1896

Legends and Traditions

TRADITIONS.

Although some become of national character, but they come true in our territory.

Roast suckling pig the December 31 in the family circle.
The rodeo including several public demonstrations.
Gallos's fight.
The race of tapes, duck, pig or duck encebado.
Tinajones to keep rainwater in houses of a lot of peasants and colonial and neo-colonial big houses.
The faithful deceaseds from the 1ro to November 3 every year.
There are a lot of isolated tombs that your relatives visit and maintain.
Craft native wells with well curbs of hardwood, Piedra and Ladrillos.
Child's plays like balls, Trompos and Caracoles etc.
Party in the family circle: Activity that comes true monthly in coordination with the CDR, for it requests himself better in each zone. In her same Cultura's house offers several samples of its cultural task with the high-quality maximum that dramatizations, promotion of books, educational talks, conversatorios of health, troubadours, recorded music have Cuban between and updated, rewards to the best cederista, between other communicative techniques. On behalf of the CDR they realize, succulent collective, tables Cubans or brief contacts with your members to strengthen the functioning.
A happy day: Activity that comes true last Friday of every month in the infantile circle Lovers of Nicaragua where the theatrical woman teacher and our institution's librarian coordinatedly with the educators realize in collective birthday of the children with piñatas, caps, hats, glasses and something else characterized of these festivities; It comes true one on equal terms of cultural activities between the children of the circle and the ones of preschool student and first of the school that are attended by the house of Cultura also with infantile recorded music.
You and I at night: This activity second Saturday of the month comes true in the video living room of the house of culture of Nicaragua, dedicated to the young, it is accomplished by the theatrical institution in the same one theatrical competitions of representation take effect brief, of dance and music, they read and they analyze poems dedicated to the love, a named section comes true Respond Thou. With theme of concern for the young. (all these activities reward themselves for the institution, which is why they have a lot of acceptance).
Social gatherings: Activity that the librarian makes an offer for the workers of the I distribute infantile of the community of Nicaragua with a monthly frequency third Wednesday of the month, in her always a troubadour participates, readings of advices for the home, a comic section come true, promotes himself the magazine Bohemian and one chats on various themes that interest the educators themselves.

LEGENDS.

The most prominent acquaintances are 7 in different isolated neighborhoods where illiteracy had priority and absence of roads and news media inside them almost are:

1. Stone of magnet.

Hard and smooth stone, exit of a ray, they wrap up themselves with a thread, he stretches himself to arms of the candle and it does not burn.

2. The Cart Drivers of Brook Small Amount,

At 12 in the night the travelers count on foot or on horseback when passing the brook they hear splashing in water, plow you of oxen and songs of invisible men:

They not get scared gentlemen

Although the non-importunate hour

And late put salt in the moon,

We have to be here

Because we are road.

3. Guife of Black Brook.

4. Night-time woman who rides a horse of the wind.

5. White mother in law of one's son's lady

6. The treasure of the Tamarind.

7. The immortal crocodile.