La Gran Piedra and shows a welcoming landscape, with a lush vegetation, where ferns, eucalyptus, orchids, flowers and butterflies pines predominate. Elevation, 14 kilometers from Santiago de Cuba, is about 50 meters long, 25 meters high and 30 wide. Some researchers claim that owes its origin to a meteor impact millions of years ago in Eastern territory, while the most authoritative opinions refer that owes its formation to the layer of an underwater volcano.
Its weight is estimated at 63,000 tons and is located more than a thousand 200 meters above sea level, so it is a natural viewpoint of the Sierra Maestra, Santiago and Baconao Park.