[2] Founded in 1809 and originally named Puerta de Golpe (i.e. "Slamming Door"), Esperanza is a former municipality[1] merged in Ranchuelo after the administrative re-adjustment of 1976.

[1] In 1933, a group of marxist workers called the Urbano de La Rosa, uprised as part of the Cuban Revolution of 1933, with it causing strong repressions on the municipality and several arrests.

[3] Esperanza is located on a plain surrounded by isolated hills and a lake, and its urban plan is developed with square shape.

This road links the village to the A1 motorway (Autopista Nacional), at the exit "Ranchuelo-Cienfuegos", located 7 km in the south.

Esperanza counts also a railway station in the junction point between the lines Havana-Santa Clara-Camagüey-Santiago and Santa Clara-Cienfuegos.