The Municipio of Bejucal is one of the twenty six municipios in the province of Havana, Cuba. This municipio covers a surface of 75 square kilometers. To the north it borders with Santiago de las Vegas; to the east with San Antonio de las Vegas and Batabanó; to the south with La Salud; and to the west with San Antonio de los Baños.

Note: A "municipio" (plural: municipios) is the first political division of the provinces in Cuba. It is similar, in many ways, to the county or parish in which a state is divided in the United States.

Population: The population of this municipio in 1953 was 11,204 persons.

Jurisdiction: Bejucal was one of the thirty one jurisdictions in which Cuba was divided in the 1700's. Ever since 1874, when the Isla de Pinos was made a municipio of its own, land has been taken away from Bejucal to make new municipios. In 1940 the Municipio of Bejucal was judicial party and the fiscal district.

Barrios: The "barrios" (singular: barrio) in Cuba are similar to the electoral districts in which a county is divided in the United Sates.

The barrios of Bejucal in 1943 were: Primero, Segundo, Tercero, and Cuarto are part of San Felipe de Bejucal. Also in this municipio are included the barrios of Aguas Verdes and Beltrán.

Aguas Verdes: Included in this barrio was the town of Piedras.

Beltrán: In this barrio, in the ranch of “El Bosque” (The Forest), Juan Delgado was born. Juan Delgado joined the Cuban Revolution for Independence and achieved the rank of Colonel for his valor in the field of action. He was the one, accompanied by some of the troop, that rescued the body of Mayor General Antonio Maceo and his helper Panchito Gomez Toro. Juan Delgado died in action just a few days before the United States declared war on Spain and entered the war already well in progress in Cuba.

The first train run in Cuba was from Havana to Bejucal. The historic event took place on November 19, 1837 placing Cuba as the seventh country in the world, and the first in the Spanish speaking world, to have a train. Yes, even before Spain had the parallel lines in place, in Cuba the iron horse was steaming its way through the fields of Bejucal.