The Stone Zoo

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| native_name = Zoologico de Piedra

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| location = Yateras, Cuba

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| founder = Ángel Íñigo Blanco (1935-2014)

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| created = 1977

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| designation = Cultural Patrimony of Cuba

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The Stone Zoo (Zoologico de Piedra in Spanish) is a collection of more than 400 animal and people sculptures in rock in Alto de Boquerón, Yateras, Cuba.{{cite web|last=Hunt|first=Nigel|title=Zoologico de Piedras|url=http://www.zoologicodepiedra.com/zoologico-de-piedra-creators.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129232027/http://www.zoologicodepiedra.com/zoologico-de-piedra-creators.htm|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 29, 2009|accessdate=28 April 2014}}{{cite web|title=En fotos, Zoológico de piedra|url=http://www.cubadebate.cu/fotorreportajes/2012/09/27/en-fotos-zoologico-de-piedra/#.U11sBSgTtnY|accessdate=28 April 2014}} It is the only stone zoo in the world.[https://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/02/28/20384/stone_zoo_only_one_world_cuba.html Stone zoo, the only one in the world is in Cuba], Cubaheadlines.com, 28 October 2010

History

In 1977, the self-taught sculptor Ángel Íñigo Blanco (1935-2014) quit his coffee-picking job and started to chisel rocks in the natural park. His son Ángel Íñigo Pérez took on the project.Ailyn Martín Pastrana, [http://www.lahabana.com/content/stone-zoo-somewhere-nature-art/ Stone Zoo: Somewhere between nature and art], Lahabana.com[https://havanatimes.org/other-galleries/guantanamos-stone-zoo-a-one-of-a-kind-experience/?nonamp=1 Guantanamo’s Stone Zoo: A One-of-a-Kind Experience], Havanatimes.org, 16 March 2016{{cite web|title=Muere Ángel Iñigo Blanco, creador del Zoológico de Piedra de Guantánamo|url=http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2014/04/27/muere-angel-inigo-blanco-creador-del-zoologico-de-piedra-en-guantanamo/|accessdate=28 April 2014}}

The Stone Zoo was declared Cultural Patrimony of Cuba on June 26, 1985.{{citation needed|date=April 2014}} The Stone Zoo is part of the Cuchillas del Toa biosphere reserve.[http://www.cubanocuba.com/museo-zoologico-de-piedra/ Museo Zoologico de Piedra], Cubanocuba.com, October 2015

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