On the south coast, directly opposite Matanzas, lies a vast swamp known as the Cienega de zapata.
"Cuba, Old and New"
Albert Gardner Robinson
Cardinal zapata, Don Pedro of Toledo, and above all Count Gondomar, who had at that time been made a member of the Council, declared before that body that Spain ought to have no higher political aim than to secure her union with England.
"A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6)"
Leopold von Ranke
"Across the miles I stretch my hand in fellowship with Mexico's great democrat-zapata.
"The Red Conspiracy"
Joseph J. Mereto