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Tinajón camagüeyano: The symbol is camagüeyano par excellence. Constitute the village representation more rooted. For it, Camaguey is met at all Cuba like the Tinajones's City.

In the first half of the XVIIth century a young native of Andalusia whose name did not go on record, driven to despair for lack of water remembered the deposits of baked clay that use in the provinces andaluzas to save olive oil themselves, he prepared a craft oven and right after days of intense work what the first tinajón From one would be melted the tinajones to another century they were varying of way, in essential there was a classic model that has gotten as far as our days, the typical tinajón camagüeyano is that one of voluminous belly, delimited geometric lines. The tinajón enriched life and the folklore of the camagüeyano, on him legends were told and they strengthened habits, that they talk about the radiculation in the city of this object, happened self-defining symbol par excellence.