Rita la Caimana, popular character, who in the streets of the City of Bayamo provoked the laughter and admiration of the inhabitants with her passionate dance before Cuban music above all, this made her the inspiring muse of the duo Los Compadres, whose song ("Como Baila Rita, la Caimana") has been covered by other well-known Cuban performers. Rita drew applause on the most improvised stage.  Some think her sane, with a madness escaped from all typecasting given by her common behavior, she walked the streets, enjoyed and made enjoy the smile and laughter in the wind.

 Her popularity reached the musical composition and she immortalized her walk in prestigious voices to a very Cuban rhythm, not only with the comfort of the tribute but with the controversy that attracted attention beyond the adoptive city.

 She delighted the streets of the city with her contagion, in her walk she left her traces in the Bayamo river when enjoying her waters in the afternoons.  Many remember with charm those pleasant spectacles of her when she passed by in the then alley of the Ciro Redondo neighborhood where she lived;  the children of the time enjoyed and danced with her.  Some may think that she never existed, that it was the popular imagination that needed such a character and she was invented to fill a void, but the truth is that she lived 96 years faithful to her homeland, perhaps as a gentleman from Paris.

On July 17, 1979, the Bayamo nursing home was her home and she lived there for the last 14 years, and according to a local worker, she was the joy of the home, with her charisma she infected the old people and everyone who knew her.

A sculpture of her is currently in the Wax Museum of this city.