Cueva de los Portales

During the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, Ernesto Che Guevara transferred the headquarters of the Western Army to the vast and spectacular cave, 11km west of Parque la Güira and 16km north of Entronque de Herradura on the Carretera Central. The cave is set in a beautiful remote area among steep-sided vine-covered mogotes (limestone monoliths) and was declared a national monument in the 1980s. Within the cavemouth, a small outdoor museum exhibits Che's roughshod artifacts including his bed and the table where he played chess.