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Cuba - Ingenio El Oriente (El Oriente Sugar Mill)

This sugar mill was built in 1844 by the affluent landowner Francisco Iraola Serrano. At first it was only a treadwheel with horizontal crusher rolls and towards the end of the 1850s a steam engine was added, becoming the largest sugar mill in the jurisdiction, with 128 “caballerías" (aprox. 1717 hectares) of land dedicated to sugar cane and a workforce of 120 slaves.

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El Oriente Sugar Mill. Front view of the main house. Photo: Nilson Acosta
El Oriente Sugar Mill. Slave quarter. Photo: Nilson Acosta
El Oriente Sugar Mill. Chimney and industrial construction.. Foto: Nilson Acosta
El Oriente Sugar Mill. Archaeological remains of the sugar mill furnaces. Photo: Nilson Acosta
El Oriente Sugar Mill. Museum exhibition of the sugar production process.. Photo: Nilson Acosta

Other data of interest

Cuba

Historical name

Ingenio El Oriente

Founding Date

1844

Address

Comunidad Oriente Rebelde, Municipio Sibanicú, Camagüey (Oriente Rebelde Community, Sibanicú municipality, Camagüey province)   , PC: 72700 .

Responsible entity

Office of the Historian of Camagüey

Management plan

Classification

Agro-industrial complex

Category

National monument

Function-Testimony

Multipurpose

Access level

Restricted

Current Use

Site museum

Original use

Sugar agricultural-industrial complex

Property kind

State

Declarations

  • National Monument 2012