The City of Trinidad was the head of the municipal term, judicial party and fiscal district by its name, in the province of the Villas, Cuba.

One is located in the skirt of the hill of the Watch, extending the population on an inclined plane of smooth declivity. De was founded year 1514 by the Advanced Diego Vela'zquez, previous a recognition of those contours and whose zone the Indians denominated Guamuhaya. Nearer relatives and relatives concurred their foundation his, between who we remembered captains Pedro de Alvarado, Francisco Fernandez of Cordova, later discoverer of Yucatan, Basoue Porcayo de Figueroa, the famous Father the Cases and their friend Pedro de Rentería, Cristóbal Olid, Hernán Lopez and others. The foundation was put under the invocation of the Santísima Trinidad. In the same one done it was constituted his city council with the title of Villa and named governor the captain Francisco de Verdugo, Advanced deudo of the own one, such era the esteem that already this one had to him to its new creation.

The first years of the colony slid slow: that people seasoned, hungry of glory, sent their glance to the great sea that extended to its Vista in anxieties of new horizons and better benefit. In 1518 she left here from Hernán Cortes, and with much of his people she reinforced herself. The punitive expedition that Diego sent de Vela'zquez against Hernán Cortes, already in Mexico, and that, in the end, served as effective aid for the plans of Cortes. Trinidad, then, has cooperated directly activates and to the new discoveries with its blood and its wealth. The emigration single-breasted uniform jacket almost left without arms nor direction it in those first days of its birth and had to wait means century to show the inextinguishable treasures locked up in the fertility of its fields and the entrails of its rustic mountains.

In 1642 and the 1654 English pirates with real patent sacked to this city, which very soon made up for of its damages with the contraband that began or to settle down between her and Jamaica. When exploding in Spain the war of succession, in which two foreign monarchs disputed the power created and forged by the Hispanic town, and England took advantage of the complaint to end the supremacy of Castile, they returned for these dominions, and Trinidad by his quality of marine, the incursions and sackings of the blondes of Albion, to which they responded those of Trinidad arming and paying for the expenses of several cruises against those and giving suitable and deserved answer them.