In 1930, Pedro Garcia Valdes reported the finding of two petal-shaped axes that traced the presence of aboriginals in the region. Fourteen years later, on September 10, 1944, Antonio Ramos and Antonio Garcia discovered a cave on the west side of Manantiales River, on a hillside packed with household items and other archeological evidence. Studied on the spot by Dr. Rene Herrera Fritot, the scholar dug out the human bones of seven aboriginals wrapped up in a funerary pall, the remains laid out in the form of a secondary burial (shallow ground) and accompanied by plenty of flint instruments, a charred gouge and half a dozen hammers. Among the artifacts found on the premises, a cone-shaped pierced earring, two stone fragments and a fluvial conch. All the evidence belonged to islanders who lived there during the Mesolithic or Pre-Pottery Era.

The very first documented mention was made on November 10, 1634, when Juan Recio requested an estate in a valley with abundance of springs. It seems that this settler never too possession of those lands because on April 26, 1675, according to the logbook of a town hall meeting held in Havana, Nicolas Cardoso was granted the farm or estate of San Jose de Manantiales.

Coffee plantations in Soroa, whose productive concept hinged heavily on slavery, imported black workforce from Africa. That mass of Negroes eventually triggered numerous expressions of rebelliousness in a thousand ways. These slaves transformed the hills of Soroa in safe havens from where they fought back with might and main the charges of cruel rangers and their hounds.