In 1920's the Norte de Cuba railroad opened between
the urban communities of Santa Clara and Puerto Tarafa in Nuevitas.
The cause of Florencia was the development of a railroad station to
give access to its Guadalupe neighbors in 1926. Guadalupe is the most
seasoned town in this locale. This train station was based on a
homestead known as El Merino. The railroad was vital for this
district, it really was the first method for correspondence and
transport that connected these lost valleys with whatever remains of
nation. In the 1920s the streets were practically nonexistent and
individuals existed in complete disengagement.
The main strategy for correspondence and transport
was by arreas. With the entry of the railroad, the ranchers got to be
wealthier and accordingly numerous vendors and businesspeople moved
their organizations to be close to the new station. Land
organizations and the neighborhood managers of the homesteads began
to create what is presently this captivating town. In the first place
the railroad station and afterward the new town itself was named
Florencia. The name was recommended by one of the neighbors who said
that the mountain perspective helped her to remember the mountains
close Florence in Italy.
The quick build of its populace was to some extent
because of the Sansó & Cia, which opened an enormous nourishment
industry in the town in the 1940s furthermore as an aftereffect of
the development of dams on the Chambas waterway. At the point when
the water of the dams overflowed the Florencia and Tamarindo valleys
in the 1990s, a large number of the influenced agriculturists and
their families moved to Florencia. Florencia developed rapidly, and
it has since turned into the most paramount social and practical
focus with the best correspondences offices in the region.
