Geographic feature and protected area belonging to the municipality of Sagua la Grande in the Cuban province of Villa Clara. Located to the center-north of Cuba, they constitute the most important geomorphologic accident of its type in the central region of the country and the second of Cuba after Viñales, being the last redoubt of natural vegetation of the north of Villa Clara, known in the past as the Gold Coast and intensely anthropized since colonial times because of its fertile soils and forest resources. Because of its high biodiversity and paleontological, speleological, historical-cultural and landscape values, it was declared an Ecological Reserve in 1984. <br>