Areas of Havana

Since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 there were great social changes, particularly affecting education, public health services, social housing and public buildings, but as regards the topography of the Havana, you can further describe it according to the same broad areas of 1958 with a few new additions.

Many of these changes were reflected in the buildings after 1959. These include the stately Almejeiras Brothers Hospital, numerous hotels, modern buildings such as the Melia Cohiba, Melia Panorama and Havana, which mimics the facades of the skyscrapers of the First World.

In recent years, the historic center of Havana was declared a national monument by the Cuban government in 1976 and a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1982, and is the subject of Herculean restoration, conducted by a team of historians and architects led by the Office of the Historian of Havana, Eusebio Leal, in charge of the renovation work.
Today, Havana has almost two and a half million inhabitants. And three quarters of them are under 20 years old. For them, the city is changing almost every year, due to tourism. The hotels of old, closed for thirty years, shine once again with all their lights.

In Havana the separation of social class’s municipalities is not very frequent, especially since the victory of communism and it is not possible to divide neighborhoods by religion mainly because most of the population are secular or Catholic. In recent years Protestantism has won many parishioners. The Havana people must travel from one town to another to shop, work, study or go to the doctor.

It is located northwest of the province, covering an area of 36.2 km². Its geographical location has no sociocultural, economic and political history linking it closely to the former territories of Marianao, Cano, Puentes Grandes and Bauta. The coast serves as a framework for tourism facilities and various social circles. It has a population of 187,580 inhabitants with a population density of 3025.1 people/km².

The territory now occupied by the town beach was an area ripe for a native settlement, due to its proximity to the coast and four relatively nearby rivers. It is one of the territories of the province with the “best exponent of the Aboriginal theme.” It has the largest scientific pole of the country, the Conference Center, the National Aquarium, the Model of Havana’s Karl Marx Theater and many restaurants.

Its main economic and social activities include constructions for Health, Education, Tourism, the Scientific and Medical and Pharmaceutical Industry. The transformation of recent years has turned the territory into the largest producer of medicines and vaccines in the country. The developments also highlight investments in the tourism industry and real estate with emphasis on:

Hotel Panorama
Hotel Melia Habana
Hotel Miramar
Hotel Comodoro
Hotel Copacabana
Hotel Mirazul
Hotel Palco
Centro de Negocios Miramar (Miramar Trade Center)
Commercial galleries BOX
Commodore boutique Galleries

The Plaza de la Revolucinn municipality covers an area of 11.8 km², and is bordered on the north by the Malecon. The population of this area amounts to 173,239 inhabitants. There is also a floating population from 20,000 to 30,000 people daily, these figures may be even higher because of work.

The Plaza is called “Capital of Capital,” because it focuses as much on central administration agencies of the State, the largest hospital network in the country, cultural centers, recreation, exhibition halls, galleries, museums, plus is summarized in its resident population and all possible edges that indicate the essential universality of Cuba.

It has dissimilar cultural and sports facilities of great importance, both locally and nationally. Some of them are: Teatro Mella; Teatro Nacional de Cuba; the sports complex Fonst Ramon; Jose Marti National Library (which has more than two million documents in general) and several nightclubs located in the neighborhood “El Vedado” (cultural center City).

It lies on the northern and central parts of the city and west of the bay. It is bordered to the north by the Straits of Florida, to the South by the Cerro municipality, to the east by Habana Vieja and to the west the municipality Plaza of the Revolution. It is the smallest town with a surface area of 3.5 km². It has a population of 158,763 inhabitants. It is the most densely populated with 45, 360.9 inhabitants per km². The settlements at Central Havana date from the early colonial years and are closely linked to the founding of the town of San Cristobal de La Habana (1514-1519), whose privileged position as Key to the Gulf of Mexico raised the greed of the world.

Economic activity is based on Central Havana trade, services, tourism and the garment industry based on textiles, health and hygiene materials, chemical reagents, twisted snuff, bulbs, books, booklets and pamphlets, concentrated beverages, spirits and soft drinks, plates and fittings for industry. The municipality is the School of Music Amadeo Roldan, American theater, cinema, Astral Theater, Musical Theater and Chinatown, as well as Ultra Shopping Centers, La Epoca, Carlos III, Harry’s Brothers and Tense (Trasval).

In Old Havana is the historic center with beautiful baroque buildings, art nouveau and art deco including the Cathedral of Havana, the Palace of the Captains General, several castles and fortresses (La Punta, El Principe, Atar and the Royal Force), the Capitol, Payret film and Gran Teatro de La Habana. Intimate places that exude history are the Plaza de Armas, with its neighbor, the Temple, and the Alameda de Isabel II, today known as Marti.

The historical center and its system of fortifications was declared a national monument on June 6th 1978 and subsequently as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, during the sixth meeting of the World Heritage Committee held from 13th to December 17th 1982, in Paris.

And there are several hotels including:

Hotel NH Parque Central
Hotel Ambos Mundos
Hotel Inglaterra
Hotel Plaza
Hotel Saratoga
Telegraph Hotel

The composed, geographically well-defined two regions linked by land and sea are Casablanca and Regla. With a total land area of 9.2 km², bordered to the north by Habana del Este, south by San Miguel del Padron, in the east and west by Guanabacoa Old Havana. It has a total population of 44,501 inhabitants and a population density of 4837.1 people/km². It is the second most economically powerful city in the world.

Within its core products are: petroleum refining; liquefied gas; aluminum production; gross catch of frozen fish and wheat flour as well as shipyards and construction industries. The main economic objectives of the municipality are: Cuban Fishing Fleet; Fleet Gulf Terminal Pesquera; Heavy Construction Brigade and Diques.

Rule has three national monuments: El Santuario de Regla; the Municipal Palace and the Colina Lenin. The Artistic and Literary Liceo founded in 1878 is considered a Local Monument. A typical symbol of popular culture in this town is found in the troupe “The Guaracheros Rule” which has won awards not only nationally but also internationally and whose presence is already present in the Mexican carnivals Veracruz.