Constancia (Encrucijada)

Ward in Villa Clara Province, Cuba

Constancia

Ward

Abel Santamaria

Constancia (1898)

Map of Abel Santamaría (red) in Encrucijada (orange) in Villa Clara (yellow)

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Coordinates: 22°35′33″N 79°51′24″W﻿ / ﻿22.59250°N 79.85667°W﻿ / 22.59250; -79.85667
Country| Cuba
Province| Villa Clara Province
Municipality| Encrucijada
Founded| 1867
Named after| Abel Santamaría
Government

[1]

• President| Celina Margarita Ruiz Rodríguez ( PCC)
Area

[2][3]

• Ward

| 67 km2 (26 sq mi)
• Urban Settlement of Abel Santamaría| 0.75 km2 (0.29 sq mi)
Population

(2012)[2] [3]

• Ward

| 2,810
• Density| 42/km2 (110/sq mi)
• Urban

| 1,460
• Rural

| 1,350
• Urban settlement of Abel Santamaría

| 1,247

Abel Santamaria also known as Constancia and is a ward (consejo popular) and an Urban Settlement in Encrucijada, Villa Clara Province, Cuba. It’s the birthplace of Abel Santamaría, a Cuban revolutionary that fought for the 26th of July Movement and his sister Haydée Santamaría.[citation needed]

## Geography

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Towns in Abel Santamaría’s ward are: [4]

* Canoa
* Tuinicú
* Paso Real
* Raizúa
* Castaño
* Las Mercedes
* Progreso
* Cayo Hueso
* Guadalupe
* Congojas

Abel Santamaria is south of La Sierra and El Purio. It is north of Santa Clara Municipality. To the east is the Sagua la Chica River and its west is Encrucijada Sur. [4]

## Education

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Schools in Constancia include:[5]

* Boris Luis Santa Coloma Primary School
* CI Sueños de Abel
* Mariana Grajales Rural Primary School
* Augusto César Sandino Rural Primary School
* Roberto Rodríguez Rural Primary School
* Jesús Menéndez Rural Primary School
* Marcelo Salado Rural Primary School

## Transportation

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Constancia is on the Ingenio Constantia Railway to Cayo Hueso, and which links it to the railway that starts in Santa Clara, going to Crucero Margot, to Luis Arcos Bergnes, Vega Alta, Canoa, Tuinicu, Constancia, Encrucijada, Mata, El Vaquerito, Aguada la Piedra, Cifuentes, San Diego del Valle, Conyedo, and finally back to Santa Clara. [6][7]

## Arts

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### Landmarks

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In Abel Santamaria there are monuments including:[8]

* a Spanish Fort
* Bust of Jesús Menéndez Larrondo [es]

## References

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1. ^ "Celina Margarita Ruiz Rodríguez". Archived from the original on 2022-09-10. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
2. ^ a b "Facultad De Ciencias Sociales Carrera De Estudios Socioculturales". Docslib. Retrieved 2023-05-16.
3. ^ a b "Abel Santamaría (Encrucijada, Villa Clara Province, Cuba) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map, Location, Weather and Web Information". www.citypopulation.de. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
4. ^ a b Lisbet Morales Martínez, Lisbet; Dr. Leonid, E. Hernández Sánchez; Pereira Leonard, Yainalis (2013). "LA INFLUENCIA DE LA INDUSTRIA AZUCARERA EN LAS CARACTERÍSTICAS SOCIOCULTURALES DE LA COMUNIDAD DE ENCRUCIJADA" (PDF). Santa Clara, Cuba: dspace (Institutional Repository of the Central University "Marta Abreu" of Las Villas). p. 46.
5. ^ "Portal del Ciudadano Somos Encrucijada - Educación". www.somosencrucijada.gob.cu. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
6. ^ lezumbalaberenjena (2017-11-09), Composed road map from a tour guide (1980's), retrieved 2023-04-12
7. ^ "Road guides of Cuba" (PDF). 2019.
8. ^ Provincial, Equipo de Producción. "Portal del Ciudadano Somos Encrucijada - Monumentos". www.somosencrucijada.gob.cu (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-07-19.