The valley has an area of 132 km2 (51 sq mi) and is located in the Sierra de los Órganos mountains (part of Guaniguanico range), just north of Viñales in the Pinar del Río Province.

In 1999, the valley was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as a natural and cultural landscape because of its use of traditional tobacco-growing techniques.

[2] The extraordinary geomorphological formations known as mogotes, which are found nowhere else in Cuba, have sometimes not only attained the dimensions of mountains, but formed a variety of unusual shapes.

The only comparable geological structures in the world are those found in Southeast Asia, in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, the Thai highlands, Laos, Vietnam, and in the South China Karst region.

Bombax emarginatum), mountain palm (Gaussia princeps), Ekmanianthe actinophylla, and Microcycas calocoma.

The Mural includes 12 sections, showing the evolutionary process of men and animals in the Sierra de los Órganos, in its different stages.