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Unión's present-day municipality of Reyes finds placed the southwest of Matanzas's Province.
An extension of 8 possesses 55, 88 Kms2 that represents a 7.5 % of the provincial territory once a little municipality was considered.
The lemon grove limits the north with the municipality, for the east with Pedro Betancourt and Jagüey Grande, for the south with Zapata's and the west's Marsh with the Broa's Inlet and the Havanan municipalities of New Peace and It Gets Up Early .
The climate is affectionate and humid alternative, relatively homogeneous. All these landscapes the antropizados are strongly.
Aboriginal.
The first proofs of aboriginal presence at the territory are demonstrated by the fieldworks of the investigating Juan A. Cosculluela and the archeologist Harrington in 1913 at the zone Marsh of Zapata and observations and detention of small hills aborigines at the farmstead St. Domingo, In 1985 the exploration at the cave initiates The Donque itself, where the 3er is gotten as a result. Finding of The Archeological Aboriginal history unionense.
The rest belonged to a young person, among the female sex's 18 and 20 elderly years, they measured 1.20 meters of stature, he suffered from anemia and his burial was produced among the 1300 and 1500 of our era.
In the walls of these caves they have found pictographies in form of circles and lines in sign of a magical religious culture.
Mercedaciones were concessions of the Spanish crown, they delivered frontages in herds. Corrals and royal at this zone, given for the Town Council of Havana and Matanzas caracterizándose, for proprietors's continuous change, because according to Orders the lands that were not exploded could turn mercedar themselves.
Mercedaciones.
In February of the 1635 himself merceda the place San Andrés, next to Scorpions to fill with cows in favor of Francisco Martínez.
The August 19, 1648 petition of the place Scorpions to 28 leagues of San Cristóbal's City of the Habana.
In 1660 himself Merceda Laguna of San Agustín Linda with San Andrés, The Small Cloth and Alacranes En 1670 himself merceda dry Río in favor of Leonardo of Heredia like corral, among corrals Small Cloth, Cidra and San Pedro.
The April 14, 1673 asks for mercy itself the place Lagoon Bermeja of 27 leagues than Linda with the Small Cloth Flies, scorpions and Agustín's Laguna for Don José Armenteros, this ratifies itself in 1874.
Requests him the place 27 leagues, river below the Heads that it borders up on Flies, Lagoon Bermejas
The February 15, 1718 asks for for Nicolás Enteca some royal lands itself 28 tongues windward among the Old Woman, heads, Moscas, Sabanilla, Alacranes, The Cuzco Jagüeyes, and Sticks and Lagoon Bermejas is named.
The October 11, 1726 grants to Fernando of Otero the mercy of the place The Small Cloth.
Surging and development cheap to run.
. To these factors the Revolution of Haiti in 1791, which propitiated than, in Cuba, and within her in Matanzas and the territory unionense, foment him sugar production, ingenuity he was a company that was stocking up to yes same.
At Santa Ana's zone there is in 1817, 24 and for 1827 he right now has 36 ingenuities. The zone than only no goes leading at the territory, for the number of ingenuities that it counts with but also for the introduction of new technologies at his industries, sign thereby ingenuity is St. Silvestre or the acana of the Room of Citrons in 1823, becomes the first one belonging to Matanzas's jurisdiction, in installing the steam engine for his owner José Eusebio Alfonso and Soler
The ingenuity's foundation corresponds to this period also Canes in 1833, placed to three kilometers, among the south and Alacranes's southwest, founded for Juan Poey and Aloy, in 1834-1835's sugar cane harvest he had the following quantity of ingenuities. St. Ana 25, Alacranes 20, San Antonio of Cabezas22, Sabanilla of the En knight commander 68, for a total of 145.
At Matanzas's, Gonzalo Alfonso Soler's city, who was counselling of administration in Havana and proprietor of ingenuity San Gonzalo or Majagua had received a provincial concession of the Gobernador Joaquín Ezpeleta which the construction of a railroad from that city to the hacienda was authorizing The Stones in or Manuel Álvarez, being taken as a the one belonging to Sabanilla of the Encomendador.
Product to the blossoming of the pro-slavery system, the growth of the despotic mass at the territory and the worsening of his exploitation, they went away creating the developmental conditions of the first manifestations of rebelliousness slave at the territory.
Surging of nuclei poblacionales.
Scorpions he was founded in the ancient seat of the Herd of his name around 1660,
His progress was due to the quality of propitious lands for the cultivation of sugar cane and his definite fomentation began in 1813, in that same year the church like tenancy of Curato of Macurije was enabled, he was Parish Church of Ingreso and he created for himself softly San Francisco's invocation of Paula, this temple was reconstructed in 1820.
The St. Cabezas's Antonio is another nucleus poblacional whose fomentation intensifies when his church in 1822, officiate like to help of the one belonging to Matanzas, like curacy of low entrance San Antonio's invocation, this occurs at the ancient renowned Corral's plots of land Heads, where building lots among the workpeople that were taking care of the leveled grounds of those plots of land are distributed.
Cidra's town was developed at lands of Santa Ana's game than, in the year 1794, he went for Jústiz's Marquis of Santa Ana. foundedly We Can Come To An End, than the XIX borders it in the first half of the century he had a scant urban development. Heads, Sabanilla, little groups of houses are not Citron more than, constructed in his vast majority of: Guano, yagua, wood and muddy. The railroad transformed these populations's destination provoking changes of significance, in some like in Reyes's Unión it went for his prosperity determiningly.
Social development.
Enter years 1793 to 1817 Según the historian matancero Pedro Antonio Alfonso: “The first school that Santa Ana had founded about the year itself 1824 in the Gobernador Cecilio Ayllón's epoch whom was owed this foundation and another schools like the one belonging to Mocha ”. “Took charge of his establishment Francisco Guerra Betancourt, person of a lot of instruction ”. Alfonso presents than in 1829 those recently established schools were turned off.
A school of elementary education divided by sex existed in San Antonio's game of Cabezas toward 1840.
One or two doctors to cater to several thousands of people's needs existed . For 1827 San Antonio's population of Cabezas had two medical doctors and a drugstore.
The territory was seen affected in this period for cholera, that he did significant havoc, to such point than in Sabanilla his neighborhood was decimated

Technical development.
One of these Ingenuities in state-of-the-art technique is The Canes since the the best sugar mill of 1860 was installed in Juan Poey's Ingenuity and The St. Rosa that was having a very advanced machinery, in 1856 was a high-pressure steam engine movedly it constructed to him “ a piping of iron filtered of six English inches of diameter that was having 4500 rods in length and sharp note in part St. Sunday to the one belonging to St. Rosa in order to cook in the appliance the vacuum has come for pillars of bricks, to conduct the sugar cane liquor of ingenuity “ ( 6 )The apparition of workshops for the production of pieces for the sugar industry propitiates the sugar development. “In 1852 was existing a founding whose owner was named Juan Smith, native of single England and of 36 years ”.
In 1869 merge for Hilario Marcelín ( French ) and Roberto Morrison ( North American ) another workshop to this end. Both workshops established on the street Railroad at Unión's town of Reyes themselves

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