Procedures and Services

The most remote antecedents of the region of the western end of Cuba prove that it was populated by human groups 400 years ago, organized socially in gentilician communities, composed each one by two or more keys or gens that lived of the fishing, the agriculture and the hunt.

The Coat of Arms or blazon presents the river in the first term, having on both sides sowings of tobacco (a characteristic crop of this province), then a pine forest and on the horizon mountains, which reflect it landscape.

 Piano teacher Rosita Delgado de Pazos was the creator of its lyrics and music. She took the pentagram in response to the cordial and kind request of the Board of Directors of the Committee "Everything for Pinar del Río", to join the Pinar del Río fervor and maintain that enthusiasm that immediately caught the hearts of all residents in the capital vueltabajera, the "Committee of the Thousand" and those laudable purposes to do, which until then had not been done, and with those citizen figures to surround it and further dynamize the civic work that was exercised in it.

The anthem was officially sung for the first time on Sunday, December 27, 1942 at the Teatro Aida, performed by a chorale of female voices created and directed by its author.

By Gerardo Ortega Rodríguez

The oldest popular traditions of Yucatan speak; and so do the historians Tzendales or Tzutuhilas, that is, the Mayan aboriginal priests established in the Southern part of Lake Atitlán, about "the land from which Votán arrived"; and they suppose, from their descriptions, that it is Cuba.