La Turbina Lagoon
Artificial Lake and emblematic symbol of Ciego de Avila. Their existence is due to big excavations carried out in different times to extract materials for the construction of the railroad of the Trail from Júcaro to Moron: The Central Railroad when being born the XX century and the embankments for the Central Highway in the decade of the 30. For the filtrations and the accumulation of the pluvial waters transformed into a true lake.
Their banks are covered for masío. To their area marine birds come as blue, gallinuelas and wild ducks. Had fish like biajacas, and trouts, conductions these you finish and introduced for their reproduction in the decade of the 50. Today the tilapias prevails in their waters besides other species. Their depths in some places are of 30 feet and when they fall the big cloudbursts he overflows, flooding an important quarter that moves to one of their sides. It counts the history that in the year 1948, after torrential cloudbursts overflowed and the water arrived to more than a meter in the main streets of the city and they even covered the Cinema Carmen.
In their waters, lightly cloudy, they took a bath and they take a bath people mainly children. For the imprudence in that incur, they have appeared drowned many of these infantile swimmers and some adults. In contour of these misfortunes several legends have been knitted like the one denominated THE CURSE OF THE TURBINE THAT SAYS: In the artificial lake almost drowned every year several children and some adults. According to the legend, this is due to that in the years in that the excavations were made, they seemed two children destroyed by the premature explosion of a "bore"; of those that there were used and that when seeing them the father, crazily this also rushed on an explosive load and he died destroyed. Adds the legend that the soul in the suicide's pain, retaliates of the children that will take a bath in the Turbine, sinking them in the cloudy waters and drowning them.
Their name, that of the lake, is due to that in the decade of the 30 when the Central Highway was built, in rainy seasons, to be able to dry the filler material, it was necessary to install some potent turbines of vapor to reduce the water and power to work. Of there, of those machines, turbines, it owes himself the name.
