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Centro Habana

Municipality of Havana in Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba

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Location of Centro Habana in Havana

Coordinates: 23°08′0″N 82°23′0″W / 23.13333°N 82.38333°W / 23.13333; -82.38333CountryCubaProvinceCiudad de La HabanaWards (Consejos Populares)Cayo Hueso, Colón, Dragones, Los Sitios, Pueblo NuevoArea

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• Total4 km² (2 sq mi)Elevation

45 m (148 ft)Population

(2021)^[2]

• Total132,451 • Density33,000/km² (86,000/sq mi)Time zoneUTC-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.

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).

References

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