Official Name: | Cotorro |
Settlement Type: | Municipality of Havana |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Cotorro in Cuba |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Cuba |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Leader Title: | President |
Leader Name: | Yaima Valle Barrios |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 66 |
Population As Of: | 2004 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 74650 |
Population Density Km2: | 1131 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Coordinates: | 23.0261°N -82.2475°W |
Area Code: | +53-7 |
Parts Type: | Wards (Consejos Populares) |
Parts Style: | para |
P1: | Alberro |
P2: | Cuatro Caminos |
P3: | Lotería |
P4: | San Pedro-Centro Cotorro |
P5: | Santa Maria del Rosario |
P6: | Magdalena-Torriente |
Cotorro, or San Pedro del Cotorro, is one of the 15 municipalities (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
The municipality is situated by the Carretera Central (Central Highway), and main autopista (motorway). Cotorro is 16 km from Old Havana. Its foundation dates to 1822. By the end of the 1950s, Cotorro had grown in such a way that it was exceeding in extension and population to the head of the municipality.