Perico is a municipality and town in the Matanzas Province of Cuba. It is located south of Marti, north of Colón and east of Jovellanos.
The municipality is divided into the barrios of Altamisal, Norte, Quintana, Roque, Sur and Tinguaro.
It counts the hamlets (consejos populares) of España Republicana, meaning Republican Spain, and Máximo Gómez, named after the military commander in Cuban War of Independence.
Perico was founded in 1874 near a garrison of the Spanish Colonial Civil Guard. The name was changed in 1885 to Miguel de Cervantes, then restored to Perico in 1899.
On 4 February 2026, a weather station near Perico recorded the first freezing temperatures ever recorded in Cuba.
In 2022, the municipality of Perico had a population of 29,746. With a total area of , it has a population density of .
Perico is crossed by the Carretera Central highway and counts a railway station of the main line from Havana to Santiago de Cuba.