Inaugurated on July 10, 1988, the 5.30 meters high metal statue is located on a pond with a diameter of 15 meters. It is formed by combining brass-bronze plates and tubes. Water is gushing from four jets from the güira (commonly known as calabash tree) placed in the hand of the statue. They represent the four rivers flowing into the bay of Cienfuegos.

This artwork by the famous Cuban sculptor Rita Longa is based on the legend of a beautiful indigenous woman who lived in the Jagua region (today's Cienfuegos). The beautiful Guanaroca lagoon that has a sad but interesting legend about its emergence, is within the the Bay of Jagua. The India of Guanaroca is the best-known aboriginal legend of the seven compiled by Pedro Modesto Hernández y Hernández about the history of the former colony Fernandina de Jagua.

Acording to the legend, the sun, called Huion, created the first man on earth to have someone to worship him, and named him Hamao. Soon the sensitive moon, called Maroya, realized that Hamao was very lonely and created the first woman to accompany him, calling her as Guanaroca.

Hamao and Guanaroca fell in love with each other frantically, and from this pure love their first child, Imao, was born. Naturally, Guanaroca as a mother, put all her love and attention into raising her son. This provoked the jealousy of Hamao, who felt alienated and couldn’t accept to share his love for Guanaroca with the baby. Even though the baby was the fruit of his pure love, over time he became stuck in the criminal idea of getting rid of the child.

One night, while Guanaroca was sleeping, Hamao secretly took the tender boy to the mountains and left him there. The baby died in a short time due to hunger, thirst, and the burning effect of the sun. Waking up from sleep, Guanaroca noticed the absence of her son and desperately searched for him. Soon, she understood her loss, when she heard the squawk of a bird that announced such sad news. Meanwhile, to hide his guilt, Hamao found a large güira, hollowed it out and hided the baby's lifeless body inside. While Guanaroca was searching for her son, a güira hanging from the tree, caught her attention. When she took it into her hands, she observed that it was pierced. When she looked inside, with horror she saw the corpse of her adored son inside, so that she felt faint and the güira escaped from her hands. When it broke, fish, turtles of different sizes and a large amount of fluid came out, scattering all down the hill. This grief over the loss of her son caused the helpless mother to cry incessantly. While abundant brackish tears gradually increased, a lagoon formed what is known today as the Guanaroca lagoon.