About the neighborhood
Municipality of Havana in Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba
Centro Habana is one of the 15 municipalities in the city of Havana, Cuba. A chinatown, Barrio Chino, is also located here. It is a smaller municipality of Havana, and it has the highest population density.
Centro Habana is divided into five consejos populares (wards): Cayo Hueso, Colón, Dragones, Los Sitios and Pueblo Nuevo.
It is the part of the city located in the polygon bounded by the Malecón, the Paseo del Prado, Maximo Gómez, Arroyo and Infanta streets.
History
The infrastructure of the city, built 450 years ago, heavily deteriorated during the 1990s after the collapse of the Cuban–Soviet trade partnership. In 1996, restoration projects were started to improve housing and infrastructure in the Cayo Hueso community.
Centro Habana was established as an administrative division in 1963 and later formally made its own municipio in 1976.
Demographics
In 2004, the municipality of Centro Habana had a population of 158,151. With a total area of 4km (1.5sqmi), it has a population density of 39,537.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (102,402/sqmi). In 2023 Centro Habana had a population of 126.105. It has a population density of 36,872 inhabitants per square kilometre (95,500/sqmi).
See also
Malecon
Barrio de San Lázaro
Havana Plan Piloto
References
Gallery
External links
Cuba portal
Media related to Centro Habana at Wikimedia Commons
Centro Habana guia turistica - touristic guide (Spanish)
Hotels in Centro Habana, Cuba Travel and tourism.
Encyclopedic content adapted from the Wikipedia article on Centro Habana, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
