Camagüey (founded as Santa María del Puerto del Príncipe around 1515) is a city and municipality in central Cuba and is the nation's third largest city. It is the capital of the Camagüey Province.

The symbol of the city of Camagüey is the clay pot or tinajón, used to capture rain water to be used later, keeping it fresh. Clay pots are literally everywhere, some as small as a hand, some large enough for to people to stand up in, either as monuments or for real use. Local legend has it that if you drink water from a tinajón, you will fall in love with the city and always return. The main secondary education institution is the University of Camagüey.

Camagüey is the birthplace of Ignacio Agramonte (1841), an important figure of the Ten Years' War against Spain in 1868–1878. Agramonte drafted the first Cuban Constitution in 1869, and later, as a Major General, formed the fearsome Camagüey cavalry corps that had the Spaniards on the run. He died in combat in May 11, 1873; his body was burned in the city because the Spanish feared the rebels would attack the city to recover his body. The outline of Ignacio Agramonte's horseback statue in the Park that bears his name is a symbol of Camagüey. It was set there in 1911, uncovered by his widow, Amalia Simoni.

The city is also the birthplace of the Cuban national poet, Nicolás Guillén.