Vázquez (Puerto Padre)

Vázquez is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the municipality of Puerto Padre, in Las Tunas Province.

The village was founded in 1884 and was named after two brothers who built the first finca.

Located on a plain between Puerto Padre (17 km east); Manatí (43 km northwest) and Las Tunas (32 km southwest), Vázquez is s rural town surrounded by the villages of Yarey de Vázquez, Aguada de Vázquez and Gayol, with whom it forms a small urban area of about 20,000 inhabitants.

The village is served by a railway station on Las Tunas-Puerto Padre line,[2] is crossed in the middle by the highway 6-123 Las Tunas-Puerto Padre, and is 7 km south of the state highway "Circuito Norte" (CN).

The village has a general hospital named "Policlínico Docente 28 de Septiembre", opened in 1989.