title: Vázquez (Puerto Padre)
text: # Vázquez (Puerto Padre)
  
  Vázquez is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Puerto Padre, in Las Tunas Province. In 2011 it had a population of around 13,600.
  
  ## History
  
  The village was founded in 1884, and was named after two brothers who build the first finca.
  
  ## Geography
  
  Located on a plain between Puerto Padre (17 km east); Manatí (43 km northwest) and Las Tunas (32 km southwest), Vázquez is s rural town surrounded by the villages of Yarey de Vázquez, Aguada de Vázquez and Gayol, with whom it forms a small urban area of about 20,000 inhabitants. It is 23 km from Delicias, 31 from Jesús Menéndez and 34 from Calixto.
  
  ## Transport
  
  The village is served by a railway station on Las Tunas-Puerto Padre line, is crossed in the middle by the highway 6-123 Las Tunas-Puerto Padre, and is 7 km south of the state highway "Circuito Norte" (CN).
  
  ## Health
  
  The village has a general hospital named "Policlínico Docente 28 de Septiembre", opened in 1989.
  
  