Mogotes de Jumagua
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The Mogotes of Jumagua are a set of 8 limestone elevations of the Superior Cretáceo fused to each other with enormous caverns. They are located within the orographic group Heights of the Northwest in the center-north of the Island of Cuba, to two kilometers of the city of Sagua la Grande. They have great scientific interest due to the enormous concentration of flora and fauna in a relatively reduced area, forming an ecological small barren island species or vestige of the old primitive forest which comprised of the call Cuban gold coast. In 1978 the sagüeros explorers re-discovered the forgotten Palmitas de Jumagua: Ekmaniana Hemithrinax (Thrinax) that they are endemic of these hills and are unique in the world. Inside their caverns have been vestiges of the Cuban Indian disappear, as well as fossil of much interest. Historically all their caves were campings mambises of the "Sagua Brigade" during the independence war of 1895 .
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