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On July 1, 2001, the centenary of the name change of the municipality of Corral Falso de Macuriges was commemorated for that of Pedro Betancourt, a tribute to Major General of the Liberation Army Pedro Estanislao Betancourt Dávalos.

In correspondence with the plan of activities foreseen since the year 2000, directed by the AMPP and expressly by decision of its President José Roberto Peña Luis, the call for the election of the symbol of the municipality was issued.

The ¨Gustavo González Pérez¨ Municipal Museum was in charge of receiving the projects in the two categories: symbols.

On December 18, 2000, as part of the celebration of the 23rd Week of Culture, a prestigious jury chaired by the outstanding Matanzas researcher Urbano Martínez Carmenate, also made up of the Spanish painter Marina Iborra Fernández, from the city of Alicante, who was in a traveling exhibition through the province of Matanzas, Julián Rogelio Álvarez López, museologist and historian of the municipality, María Teresa García Souza, Director of the Museum and Nereida Caridad Cárdenas Pumariega, Editor-reporter of the Rado 26 Provincial Station.

The jury awarded the prize to Josué de León Cabrera.

The symbol is the hotel "La Palma" located in the historic center of the municipal seat of Pedro Betancourt. The historical, architectural and environmental values of the eclectic-style building that dates back to the early 1910s were taken into account. The symbol can be seen from the four corners where the property is located and behind a royal palm, which although it was never there, it symbolizes the hotel name.