panchita beach
La Panchita beach (beach) . Beach of the Corralillo municipality , is characterized by being one of the most visited vacationer settlements in the Villa Clara Province .
Location
Located at Latitude: 22 or 56' Longitude: 80 or 25'. North coast of the Corralillo municipality
History
That coastal space was always used as a beach because it has a very special characteristic of having natural sand, something very striking to all visitors due to the unusual nature of this type of sand in these times.
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century , it was an attraction for foreign swimmers residing on the Island, in order to enjoy its waters and the exotic view.
A fishing village was built on its shores, in addition to multiple recreational houses that over time were destroyed by the passage of cyclones and hurricanes, leaving only ruins, in the same place this village today consists of permanent inhabitants and has hundreds of seasonal houses, besides the Fishing Cooperative [[PAMAR] is located there, one of the most profitable of its kind in the country both in the capture of scale and lobsters.
Characteristics
The beach differs from the others existing in our municipality because there is still a population settlement there and because there is a very large seasonal settlement there, while in the rest of our beaches the accommodation is covered with camping bases.
It is a place with a calm and familiar atmosphere for those who prefer direct contact with nature, embellished by our hills, palms and trees, characteristic of the Corralillense forest.
Here I leave you a story that touches our beloved beach very closely but that almost nobody knows. It is about the life of the terrible Cuban pirate Diego Grillo, who lived his last days in a farm near Panchita Beach.
(Taken from "The Sabaneque Archives" by Pedro Suarez Tintin)
The lighthouse keeper of Bahía de Cádiz, in 1827, met an old fisherman, Don Onelio Valdés, in the beach area of Ganuza who was his teacher who was a very cultured gentleman who combined good manners with savagery of a fight. But the most interesting thing is that Mr. Don Onelio Valdés confessed that he was the son from Don Francisco Valdés, great-great-grandson of the fearsome pirate Diego Grillo who still lived on a farm near La Panchita.
The old man was 90 years old and narrated that Diego Grillo, becoming a respectable person in the area, changed surnames, family trees and everything that could tie him to the dark past of piracy, but fearful of his prompt death told everything to his youngest son who in turn took care that the chain of confessions continued throughout his family descent.
Diego Grillo had 6 children with a Cuban from the Hatogrande site who later became known as Ceja de Pablo; There the fearsome pirate retired where he died at 82 years of age without anyone being able to identify him, because in addition to his total transformation, a curious event came to add to his final fate; It turns out that at the age of 50, the pirate already felt tired and with good fortune to enjoy, so he decided to retire, taking his place another mulatto who confused the Spaniards for many years, who thought it was the same Diego Cricket and that he even called himself Diego just like the old pirate. Don Onelio told him with pride, how his ancestor enjoyed from the comfort of his farm "the exploits of his double"; even from England where he often traveled with his whole family to another farm he owned.
The youngest of his children, with a very active history in 1640, was the Headboard of family tree that reaches Don Onelio from which very little is known, although it is recognized as the trunk of 40 percent of the Valdés of the Panchita and Sierra Morena area.
