Guayabita del Pinar
The origin of this tasty liqueur of Vueltabajo, as we know it today, cannot be defined with accuracy even if we know that they were families from Spain from the end of the 16th century on the fringes of the Cuyaguateje river , in the province of Pinar del Río, who first mixed the brandy and sugar with the small fled of Goyave, which believed wildly in the area.
However, the industrial paternity of Guayabita del Pinar has remained in history in favor of Basque Lucio Garay Zabala, businessman entrepreneur who in 1892 set up a factory to produce drinks. He already knew secrets, medicinal and digestive virtues of the known liqueur through the zone's wine merchants. Historians assure that in this company, Garay Zabala also brought his genius and knowledge by carrying Guayabita in a maximum exquisite point which made it save the market even the international.
Pinar del Río, called the new Philippine at the start, began to populate in 1699. He acquired his current name in 1776, on what influenced that his main population nucleus was near the Guamá river, surrounded by extended wood of pines.
This province, placed in the most western region of Cuba, has an area of 10,925 square kilometers, two mountainous chains divide it, Sierra del Rosario, a global reserve of the biosphere and the chain of organs, where there are estimated caves among The best on the American continent.
