Tranquilino Sandalio de Noda was born on September 3, 1808 in Las Cañas, formerly belonging to Guanajay, today to Artemisa. He was a very intelligent boy. He never attended school, the lessons were taught by his mother, his uncle and later, the land surveyor José María Dau. At the age of 24, he became a land surveyor and successively an agronomist, mathematician, literary man, poet, philologist, historian, economist, archaeologist, manners, politician, orator, naturalist, philosopher, pedagogue, stenographer and critic.
Tranquilino Sandalio de Noda lived most of his life in San Antonio de los Baños. At the end of the 1830s, after the death of his parents, his aunt Lutgarda Martínez welcomed him into his home. During this time, he taught free classes to poor children, especially to the children of slaves.
On September 22, 1853 Tranquilino, as a public surveyor, made the second measurement of the Villa de San Antonio in order to check and rectify the plan of the time. About the Natural Sciences, it is said that Noda was a great scholar. One of his investigations was related to the subsoil of Laguna del Ariguanabo and the existence of blind fish in Cuban caves.
In 1854, he made a complete, hygienic, topographic and hydrographic study of the Villa Ariguanabense. He died on May 27, 1866. In honor of Tranquilino, the City Council named Paseo de Noda to the one that borders one of the banks of the Ariguanabo River.
