Luis Olmo Jas, president of the Speleological Committee in this central Cuban province, told Prensa Latina that the site is one of the most important of those studied in the country, with a great wealth of aboriginal elements, revealing petroglyphs that are representative of rock art.

In the area, there are abundant manifestations of karst morphology, specifically in a hill with a great karst-fluvial overlap, where fossils of three cultures, each one occupying a different site, are found in the soil and shelters, he noted.

The petroglyphs represent small faces, geometric figures, humanoids and a cross that some specialists relate to magical-religious conceptions, the expert noted.

According to Olmo, who is also the president of the Samá Speleological Group, the rock art is present in all cultural groups, with greater participation by the Siboney, a social urge of expression by means of drawings and paintings, where nature and imagination are conjugated.

Among other points of great value in the preservation of the drawings carved or painted on rock is that they are located in some 40 aboriginal archaeological sites in the Caguanes National Park, in the municipality of Yaguajay, in the north of Sancti Spiritus, which was declared a Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

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