Settlement Type: | Municipality of Havana |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Centro Habana in Cuba |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Cuba |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ciudad de La Habana |
Area Total Km2: | 4 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 132,451 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Coordinates: | 23.1333°N -82.3833°W |
Elevation M: | 45 |
Area Code: | +53-7 |
Parts Type: | Wards (Consejos Populares) |
Parts Style: | para |
P1: | Cayo Hueso |
P2: | Colón |
P3: | Dragones |
P4: | Los Sitios |
P5: | Pueblo Nuevo |
Centro Habana |
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.
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.[1]
Centro Habana was established as an administrative division in 1963 and later formally made its own municipio in 1976.[2]
In 2004, the municipality of Centro Habana had a population of 158,151.[3] With a total area of 4km2,[4] it has a population density of .