[3] Located in the westernmost area of Cuba, the municipality borders with the territories of Guane and Mantua.

Many of the students are from Latin America and Caribbean countries such as Guyana, Argentina, Ecuador, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Bolivia, Peru, Suriname, Dominica, St. Lucia, Belize, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Vincent, Antigua, Solomon Islands, Nauru, Grenada, Barbados and more countries to be expected like Tuvalu and the Philippines.

[citation needed] They are part of the new education program of the Escuela Latin Americana de Medicina.

There are regular buses that frequent the town of Sandino, and straight to several locations as Guane, Isabel Rubio and Pinar del Río.

In the village of La Fé starts the national road Carretera Central, passing also through Sandino.