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Cuba's tobacco country
The world's most famous cigars begin as leaf in one small corner of western Cuba. This is a cultural guide to where that happens — the Vuelta Abajo of Pinar del Río and the limestone valley of Viñales — and a doorway into those real places in the atlas.
The growing region
Cuban premium tobacco is concentrated in the far west. The Vuelta Abajo zone, around San Juan y Martínez and San Luis in Pinar del Río, is traditionally regarded as the source of the finest wrapper and filler leaf. Just north, the Viñales valley — a UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape — grows tobacco between its mogotes using methods that have changed little in generations. The atlas records both as real destinations you can open, map and add to a trip.
Places in tobacco country
Viñales
Pinar del Río
Viñales is a town and municipality in the north-central Pinar del Río Province of Cuba. The town consists mostly of one-story wooden houses with porches. The municipality is dominated by low mountain ranges of the Cordillera de Guaniguanico such as Sierra de los Órganos. Typical outcrops known as mogotes complete the karstic character of the landscape.
Pinar del Río province
Cigars & tobacco — the full topic
See Viñales on the map
What this page is — and is not
This is a cultural and geographic overview. CubaAtlas does not sell, ship, broker or authenticate cigars or tobacco, and nothing here is a purchase, an export service, or a guarantee of authenticity. Buying and importing Cuban tobacco is regulated in many countries; check your own jurisdiction.