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Sola (Sierra de Cubitas)
Sola is a Cuban town and consejo popular ("people's council") of the municipality of Sierra de Cubitas, in Camagüey Province.With a population (2011) of about 10,000, it is the largest settlement of its municipality, including the seat town of Cubitas.[1] HistoryFounded on September 28, 1920, it was originally part of Camagüey municipality[2] until the 1977 administrative reform, when it became part of the new municipality of Sierra de Cubitas, whose seat, Cubitas, was founded in the end of 1976.[citation needed] GeographyLocated on a wide rural plain, few km south of the Atlantic Coast and the island of Cayo Guajaba,[3] Sola is divided into a pair of circumscriptions named "Sola 1" and "Sola 2". It is 8 km from La Gloria, 10 from Cubitas, 18 from Senado, 25 from Minas, 30 from Lugareño, 37 from Brasil, 50 from Nuevitas, 51 from Esmeralda and 60 from Camagüey city centre.[citation needed] TransportSola is crossed to the south by the state highway "Circuito Norte" (CN), and in the middle by the provincial road 5-521. It counts a railway station on the Santa Clara-Camajuaní-Morón-Nuevitas line,[4] with local and long-distance trains, connecting the town with Havana too. HealthThe village has a general hospital named "Policlínico 13 de Marzo", located between the centre and the Circuito Norte.[5] See alsoReferences
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