The Zapata Swamp, located in the county of Matanzas whose capital is separated for less than 100 kilometers from Havana, is the most extensive municipality and at the same time the less inhabited of Cuba, although it possesses 19 populational establishments. Half century behind, a clear image of the life of its residents was the enormous quantity of people who subsisted producing vegetable coal under very unfavorable conditions. The changes are of such a magnitude that the area is presented like one of the tourist attractions in that region. It exhibits a completely flat geography, except for small elevations and their main characteristic is that it constitutes the seat of the biggest existent wetland in the whole insular Caribbean.
Half century behind, a clear image of the life of its residents was the enormous quantity of people who subsisted producing vegetable coal under very unfavorable conditions. The changes are of such a magnitude that the area is presented like one of the tourist attractions in that region. It exhibits a completely flat geography, except for small elevations and their main characteristic is that it constitutes the seat of the biggest existent wetland in the whole insular Caribbean. 
