Hotel Islazul Florida is an ideal place for adventurous hunting and fishing journeys. Located just 39 km from Camaguey, Florida Hotel and the Porvenir dam reserve provide thrilling experiences. Species like ducks, doves, quail and Guinea fowl will make a hunter's day. Fishing will not be a disappointment at the dam, teeming with black bass. Fishermen should bring their...
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From £22.95 per person
based on 2 adults sharing Standard Room Bed & Breakfast from 2019-11-01 to 2019-12-21
The Municipality of Florida is bordered in the north by the municipality of Cespedes and Esmeralda, the south with the municipality of Vertientes, the east with Camagüey and the west, with the Baraguá municipality of the province of Ciego de Avila and the Caribbean Sea. Located to the center-west of province, characterizes for being zone level, bathed by waters of river Caonao, and counts on elevation medium, denominated “Hill of Urabo, in whose environs the last combat got rid that took place in the province, during the war of the 1895.
Florida City was founded one year after the first train ran through Camaguey province on the new Cuban central railroad by the first sales of lots in 1903 for 100 pesos, between the streets President Go'mez (General Go'mez) and the Mountain range of Otaola. In this zone completely covered with forests, in the first years several wood sawmills settled, a bar and a store. In 1904 the first telegraphic laying between Florida was had and San Jerónimo and in 1908 the urbanization of the town to the south of the railway station began, counting on 12 streets, 24 apples and one seat in 1912.
The fundamental economic base is the Sugar Industry, although other industries also stand out like: Sports, Fisheries, Cattle; also factories of tobaccos, vermicelli, galleticas, refreshments, sorbitol, shirts, bread and candies.