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Style: Colossal landscape mural painted directly on a limestone mogote, with simplified giant forms, bright flat color, and a didactic, almost diagrammatic narrative of natural evolution. Authorship: Designed by Leovigildo González Morillo, a Cuban artist associated with the Academy of Sciences, and executed in the early 1960s with the help of local workers. Historical context: The mural represents the evolution of life in the Sierra de los Órganos and is one of the most unusual outdoor murals in the world because the support is not an urban wall but a natural cliff face. It reflects the monumental ambition of post-revolutionary Cuban public culture. Local flavor: In the Viñales landscape of tobacco fields and karst hills, the mural feels at once improbable and unforgettable: part state vision, part roadside curiosity, part geological spectacle.