PINAR DEL RIO, January 7 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI /
www.cubanet.org) - After years of labor and expenses estimated at tens of
millions of pesos, the plan to develop an important tourism center in Cayo Jutía,
on the north coast of Pinar del Río province, have gone nowhere.
"This was all improvised, since Cayo Jutía doesn't meet the
requirements to be converted into a tourist installation," said engineer
Joaquín Piloto Cabrera, who lives in the Las Minas township.
"Just the causeway, built by dumping stone into the sea, of over three
kilometers in length, between the key and the coast, has cost more than the
meager results so far obtained," he said.
Piloto says so far no investor has shown an interest in the development and
the few foreign tourists that have come have left soon after, primarily
disillusioned by the environmental degradation occasioned by the development
itself.
"In addition," said Piloto, "the land area, the mangroves,
and the marine vegetation in Cayo Jutía have been severely damaged by
pollution emanating from the refining plant in the coastal town of Santa Lucía."
Piloto pointed out that after the construction of the causeway, there has
been evidence of substantial loses in the mangrove stands to the west.
"This is because the openings for marine currents under the causeway
are not sufficient," said Piloto.
The municipality of Minas, some 100 kilometers northeast of the provincial
capital of Pinar del Río, is undergoing worsening economic conditions,
aggravated by the failure of the Cayo Jutía project.
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