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The Majagua municipality is located in the southwest (SW) of the province of Ciego de Ávila and its limits are N: Florencia and Ciro Redondo municipalities. S: La Sierpe municipality. E: municipality of Ciego de Ávila and Venezuela. W: Jatibonico municipality.
The territory occupies a total area of 541.5 km²; its shape is elongated from NE to SW forming an irregular polygon. The extreme points are located at the intersection of the Majagua-Moroccan highway to the north and in the southern portion in a place located 2.5 km away; it has 25,800 inhabitants at the end of 2018.
It is divided into five Popular Councils; each Popular Council has 1 or 2 main towns and several settlements, among which are.
- Majagua Popular Council: 1 main town and 8 settlements.
- Orlando González Popular Council: 1 main town and 6 settlements.
- Guayacanes Popular Council: 2 main towns and 6 settlements.
- Mamonal Popular Council: 2 main towns and 6 settlements.
- Limones Palmero Popular Council: 3 main population centers and 2 settlements.
Majagua is a municipality in the central zone of Cuba founded in 1906, as part of the province of Ciego de Ávila. This town originated from La Majagua farm, granted around 1860, with the allegorical phytotoponym for majagua timber tree. Before it was called Santo Domingo. There was an Indian settlement called Majaguá.
Between 1875 and 1876, Major General Máximo Gómez established the camp La Majagua. During the War of 1995, the place was one of its main camps and one of the rebel forces, the scene of several combats against the Spanish forces and of historical events. In 1901, the occupying Yankee troops established a camp. That year the Cuba Company bought the land of this property. When the Central Railway was inaugurated in 1902, a halt was established.
The assassination of Colonel of the Liberation Army "Simón Reyes", which occurred in Las Casitas Farm, on November 16, 1913, had great repercussion. Between 1932 and 1933, several figures participated in the fight against Machado. In 1933 itself, a clandestine cell of the Communist Party was founded that activated the tobacco unions. In 1947, a Pro-Chivas Committee was organized, of the Orthodox Party, they carried out acts, rallies, struggle against politicking and Batista's coup d'état in 1952. In 1955, the workers of Majagua supported the sugar strike of 1955, in Algodones factory. In January 1957, a cell of the M-26-7 was organized, led by Evelio Agramontés, they carried out various actions and joined the Strike of April 9. The young men of the Rebel Army Miguel Rivera, Efraín Hurtado, Pedro Méndez, Humberto and Antonio Castellano, assassinated in the Santa Clarita farm, by forces of the tyranny.
When the Revolution triumphed on January 1, 1959, Captain Eliseo Reyes, from Column 2, entered the town. On December 15, 1963, a branch of the United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution was formed here, which in 1965 was turned into PCC. That year the town of Majagua was established as the head of the municipality and began a rapid growth. Commander Ernesto Che Guevara, as Minister of Industry, visited economic targets in 1963 and 1965. In August 1976, the Municipal Bureau of the PCC was created. Army General Raúl Castro presided over the Open Tribune of the Revolution held on February 3, 2001.
The people of Majagüa preserve the cultural tradition of peasant festivities, with the competitions of the Red and Blue sides, initiated in 1929, popular festivals of great roots and colorful.
This population is dedicated to agricultural activity and industry, the most important are canned fruits and vegetables, textile clothing and oil exploitation.
The municipality of Majagua, to comply with Law No. 1305 dated July 7, 1976, "Electoral Law" that governed the first elections to the organs of People's Power throughout the country and to establish the Organs of People's Power in the territory, as a transcendental event in the Cuban revolutionary process that took place in 1976 as an important institutional event, had broad popular participation.
On October 10, 1976, the first elections of delegates to the Municipal Assembly of People's Power were held, the purest and most democratic elections, there were 11,836 registered voters, of which 11,474 cast the vote, for a 96.9% where 41 delegates were elected who made up the 41 constituencies.
On October 31, fifteen days after the delegate election process was completed, the constitution of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power was carried out, with Salvador Martínez Cervantes being elected as president, Ramón Díaz Roches as vice president and Juan Calixto Díaz Santana as secretary.
This whole process had as background the experience carried out in the province of Matanzas, which was announced to the people by the Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, in the central act in commemoration of the XXI anniversary of the assault on the Moncada barracks, on July 26, 1974.
To comply with Article 111 of the Constitution of the Republic, the Municipal Assemblies of People's Power will be renewed every two and a half years, which is the duration of the mandate of their delegates.