It is located south of Marti, north of Colón and east of Jovellanos.

The municipality is divided into the barrios of Altamisal, Norte, Quintana, Roque, Sur and Tinguaro.

[1] It counts the hamlets (consejos populares) of España Republicana, meaning Republican Spain, and Máximo Gómez, named after the military commander in Cuban War of Independence.

Perico was founded in 1874[1] near a garrison of the Spanish Colonial Civil Guard.

Perico is crossed by the Carretera Central highway and counts a railway station of the main line from Havana to Santiago de Cuba.