Centro Habana

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Centro Habana
Municipality of Havana
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Centro Havana seen from Hotel Habana Libre
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Coat of arms
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Location of Centro Habana in Havana
Coordinates: 23°08′0″N82°23′0″W / 23.13333°N 82.38333°W / 23.13333; -82.38333
Country Cuba
Province Ciudad de La Habana
Wards (Consejos Populares) Cayo Hueso, Colón, Dragones, Los Sitios, Pueblo Nuevo
Area
[1]
 • Total
4 km2 (2 sq mi)
Elevation
45 m (148 ft)
Population
 (2021) [2]
 • Total
132,451
 • Density33,000/km2 (86,000/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (EST)
Area code +53-7

Centro Habana is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs ( municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba. A chinatown - Barrio Chino - is also located in this district. It is a smaller municipality of Havana, and it has the highest population density.

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Centro Habana is divided into five consejos populares (wards): Cayo Hueso, Colón, Dragones, Los Sitios and Pueblo Nuevo.

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. [3]

Centro Habana was established as an administrative division in 1963 and later formally made its own municipio in 1976. [4]

Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of Centro Habana had a population of 158,151. [2] With a total area of 4 km2 (1.5 sq mi), [1] it has a population density of 39,537.8 inhabitants per square kilometre (102,402/sq mi).

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Statoids (July 2003). "Municipios of Cuba" . Retrieved 2007-10-06.
  2. 1 2 Atenas.cu (2004). "2004 Population trends, by Province and Municipality" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2006-07-14. Retrieved 2007-10-06.
  3. ↑ Restoration Project Archived March 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine - Canada International Development Research Centre
  4. ↑ Bartolomé Bárguez, Carlos (2006). "Ciudad de La Habana. La identidad de la provincia y sus municipios" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2018-12-18. Retrieved 2018-12-03.
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