CUEVA LOS PORTALES

23-03-2019

During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara transferred the headquarters for 45 days, of the Western Army to this vast and spectacular cave, 11km west of Parque la Guira and 16km north of Entronque de Herradura on the Carretera Central. The Cave is still  with some furniture and personal items of Che Guevara. There are tables, an army bed etc.  The cave is set in a beautiful remote area among steep-sided vine-covered limestone monoliths and was declared a national monument in the 1980s.