It is municipality of Mayabeque province. Its name comes from the aborigine name in Axaruco that means sweet water stream, which evidences the existence in that territory of a river that since ancient times was linked to the life of the inhabitants of those lands (San Juan de Jaruco river that goes across the town and in which borders there are signs of aborigines settlements and where initially emerge the population.

It is place at the east of the province, limits to the North with Santa Cruz del Norte, to the South with San José de las Lajas, to the East woth Madruga and to the West with Habana del Este, municipality of Havana.

It has a territorial extension of 275,7 km²

Popular Districts:

• San Antonio
• Caraballo
• Bainoa Casiguas
• Tumba Cuatro

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