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Delve into Alturas de la Víbora
The district Alturas de la Víbora of Arroyo Naranjo in La Habana is a district located in Cuba a little south of Havana, the country's capital town.
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Since you are here already, you might want to pay a visit to some of the following locations: Havana, Bejucal, Bauta, San Antonio de los Banos and Quivican. To further explore this place, just scroll down and browse the available info.
Local weather forecast
Todays Local Weather Conditions & Forecast: 31°C / 89 °F
Morning Temperature | 25°C / 77 °F |
Evening Temperature | 29°C / 84 °F |
Night Temperature | 27°C / 81 °F |
Chance of rainfall | 1% |
Air Humidity | 63% |
Air Pressure | 1012 hPa |
Wind Speed | Gentle Breeze with 7 km/h (5 mph) from West |
Cloud Conditions | Scattered clouds, covering 38% of sky |
General Conditions | Light rain |
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Monday, 9th of September 2024
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31°C (89 °F)
27°C (80 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, scattered clouds.
Tuesday, 10th of September 2024
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31°C (89 °F)
27°C (81 °F)
Light rain, moderate breeze, broken clouds.
Wednesday, 11th of September 2024
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31°C (88 °F)
27°C (80 °F)
Light rain, gentle breeze, broken clouds.
Hotels and Places to Stay
Luxury Hostel Santa Clara 53
Four Points by Sheraton Havana
ARTeHOTEL Calle 2 Havana
HOTEL TELEGRAFO
Casa Dari
Ocean View Luxury Apartment
Loft Habana
Luxury Colonial Minihotel
No Limit Hostel Havana
Havana Linea Rooms
Videos from this area
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Ska Cubano - Marianao
Fantástica canción de este grupazo de música ska. Con fotos de mi viaje a Cuba. Photos of my trip to cuba.
CUBA-HAVANA-AERIAL-TRAILER
Short version of the first FPV quadrocopter flights in Cuba-Havana and Vinales, Pinar del Rio. Locations are +++ Havana +++ El Malecon,El Morro,Havana vieja,Capitolio,Catedral,Hotel Nacional,...
Episode 22 - Cuba - Country with no cream
For three weeks we are visiting the largest Caribbean island, meet a lot of local people and research Havana and its surroundings.
Havana car driving - You don't see THIS as a tourist!
Havana car driving - You don't see THIS as a tourist! This movie is about Havana as seen by car, out of the tourist routes. The real city exposed. Havana is the capital city, province, major...
El Cañonazo de las 9 en La Habana, Cuba
Imprescindible presenciar esta ceremonia si vas a Cuba, tiene su verdadera historia.
Programa Panorama Semanal. Havana Cuba. Rita Elena.
Revista semanal de Prensa Latina transmitida desde la Ciudad Habana, Cuba, sobre tópicos culturales que tienen lugar en el país. Productor: Richard Alexander. Presentadora: Rita Elena...
Video clip
8 min video clip slideshow of Cuba during it's early times after the revolution praising Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Cuba really is a beutiful place, and speeking from experiance, there in...
Carros Cubanos - San Cristóbal de La Habana
Havana is de levendige hoofdstad van Cuba. De stad herbergt vele oude gebouwen en monumenten. San Cristóbal de La Habana is de hoofdstad van Cuba Havana is the capital city, major port,...
Cuban Cars - Carros Cubanos
Havana is de levendige hoofdstad van Cuba. De stad herbergt vele oude gebouwen en monumenten. San Cristóbal de La Habana is de hoofdstad van Cuba Havana is the capital city, major port,...
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Attractions and noteworthy things
Distances are based on the centre of the city/town and sightseeing location. This list contains brief abstracts about monuments, holiday activities, national parcs, museums, organisations and more from the area as well as interesting facts about the region itself. Where available, you'll find the corresponding homepage. Otherwise the related wikipedia article.
Diezmero
Diezmero is a ward in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, located by Carretera Central. It is under the administration of San Miguel del Padrón, a city municipality of Havana. Its demography spreads within about 2 square kilometers.
John Lennon Park
John Lennon Park or Parque John Lennon (formerly known as Parque Menocal) is a public park, located in the Vedado district in Havana, Cuba.
Finca Vigía
Finca Vigía (Lookout Farm) was the home of Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, and now houses a museum.
Estadio Latinoamericano
The Estadio Latinoamericano (Spanish for Latin American Stadium) is a stadium in Havana, Cuba. It is primarily used for baseball. Gran Estadio, a spacious pitchers' park with prevailing winds blowing in and boasting a playing surface and lighting system of major-league quality, was built in 1946 as the top baseball park in Latin America. Located in the Cerro neighborhood, it opened with the name Gran Estadio de La Habana and currently holds about 55,000 people.
International School of Havana
The International School of Havana (ISH) is an international school in Cuba, located in the exclusive neighborhood of Miramar, Havana.
Vedado
Vedado is the downtown and a vibrant neighbourhood in the city of Havana, Cuba. Bordered on the east by Central Havana, and on the west by the Miramar/Playa district. The main street running east to west is Calle 23, also known as "La Rampa". The northern edge of the district is the waterfront breakwater known as the Malecón, a famous and popular place for social gatherings in the city. The United States Interests Section complex is located in Vedado.
Santiago de Las Vegas
Santiago de las Vegas is a ward of Boyeros, a municipality of Havana, Cuba, located 12 miles south of city center. As of the year 2000, the population was 22,000. The Cuban government maintains an agricultural experiment station, as well as a meteorology center in the city.
Miramar, Havana
Miramar is a residential district (consejo popular) of the municipality of Playa, in the city of Havana.
Estadio Pedro Marrero
Estadio Pedro Marrero, the home of CF Ciudad de La Habana, is a multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba. It is now used primarily for football matches. The stadium holds 28,000 and was built in 1929.
El Capitolio
El Capitolio, or National Capitol Building in Havana, Cuba, was the seat of government in Cuba until after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and is now home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences. Its design and name recall the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. , but it is only superficially similar. Completed in 1929, it was the tallest building in Havana until the 1950s and houses the world's third largest indoor statue.
Colon Cemetery, Havana
The Colon Cemetery or more fully in the Spanish language Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba on top of Espada Cemetery. Named for Christopher Columbus, the 140 acre (57 ha) cemetery is noted for its many elaborately sculpted memorials. It is estimated that today the cemetery has more than 500 major mausoleums, chapels, and family vaults.
Aeroflot Flight 331
Aeroflot Flight 331, refers to an Ilyushin Il-62M, registration CCCP-86614, that was operated by the International Civil Aviation Directorate of Aeroflot as an international scheduled Moscow–Frankfurt–Lisbon–Havana passenger service, and crashed 1 km away from José Martí International Airport, Havana, Cuba, on 27 May 1977 after it hit power lines on its final approach to the airport in poor weather.
Gran Teatro de La Habana
The Gran Teatro de La Habana (Spanish "Great Theatre of Havana") is located in the Paseo del Prado in Havana, Cuba. It is located in a building known as the Palace of the Galician Centre which served as a place of social reunion for the Galician immigrants in Havana. The theatre has been home of the Cuban National Ballet and, on its main stage, of the International Ballet Festival of Havana.
José Martí Memorial
The José Martí Memorial (Spanish: Monumento a José Martí) is a memorial to José Martí, the national hero of Cuba, located on the northern side of the Plaza de la Revolución in the Vedado area of Havana. It consists of a star-shaped tower, a statue of Martí surrounded by six columns, and gardens. The 109 m (358 ft) tower, designed by a team of architects led by Enrique Luis Varela, is in the form of a five-pointed star, encased in grey Cuban marble from the Isla de la Juventud.
Oriental Park Racetrack
Oriental Park Racetrack in Marianao, Havana, Cuba was a thoroughbred horse racing facility operated during the winter months by the Havana-American Jockey Club of Cuba. Founded in 1915, Oriental Park was the only race track in Cuba in the days before Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.
Cuban Academy of Sciences
The Academy of Sciences of Cuba (Academia de Ciencias de Cuba), founded on May 19, 1861 with its headquarters in the National Capitol building in Havana, is Cuba's Academy of Sciences. It is an official institution of the Cuban state with a national scope, independent and consultative in the area of science, and the successor of the former Royal Academy of Medicine, Physical and Natural Sciences of Havana, and is also attached to the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment.
Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar
Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar is the second largest church in Cuba. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Cristobal de la Habana. It was begun in 1948 and inaugurated on May 28, 1953. It is done in Roman-Byzantine style. Its architect was Eugenio Cosculluela y Barreras(1893–1978) The murals in the church were painted by the Spanish painter, Cesareo Marciano Hombrados y de Onativia (1909–1977) between the years 1952 and 1959.
Espada Cemetery
The Espada Cemetery is a disused cemetery located approximately a mile west of the city of Havana, Cuba, near to the coast and close to the San Lázaro Leper Hospital. In use from 1806 to 1878, the Espada Cemetery was the first burial place formally designed and constructed in the Havana region; prior to the cemetery construction, the Havana custom had been to bury the dead in vaults of the Churches. It was named after the Bishop incumbent at the time of design, José Díaz de Espada y Landa.
Captaincy General of Cuba
The Captaincy General of Cuba (Spanish: Capitanía General de Cuba) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain's attempt to better defend the Caribbean against foreign powers, which also involved creating captaincies general in Puerto Rico, Guatemala and Yucatán. The restructuring of the Captaincy General in 1764 was the first example of the Bourbon Reforms in America.
National Art Schools (Cuba)
Cuba's National Art Schools (Escuelas Nacionales de Arte, now known as the Instituto Superior de Arte) are considered by historians to be one of the most outstanding architectural achievements of the Cuban Revolution. These innovative, organic Catalan-vaulted brick and terra-cotta structures were built on the site of a former country club in the far western Havana suburb of Cubanacán, which used to be Havana's "Beverly Hills" and was then mainly reserved for Communist Party officials.
Floridita
Floridita or El Floridita is an historic fish restaurant and cocktail bar in the older part of Havana, Cuba. It lies at the end of Calle Obispo (Bishop Street), across Monserrate Street from the The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana. The establishment is famous for its daiquiris and for having been one of the favourite hangouts of Ernest Hemingway in Havana. “ My mojito in La Bodeguita, my daiquiri in El Floridita ”
Cuban pine forests
The Cuban pine forests are a tropical coniferous forest ecoregion on the Caribbean islands of Cuba and Isla de la Juventud. They cover an area of 6,400 km, occurring in separate sections in eastern Cuba and western Cuba and Isla de la Juventud.
University of Havana
The University of Havana or UH (in Spanish, Universidad de La Habana) is a university located in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. Founded in 1728, the University of Havana is the oldest university in Cuba, and one of the first to be founded in the Americas. Originally a religious institution, today the University of Havana has 15 faculties (colleges) at its Havana campus and distance learning centers throughout Cuba.
Havana Central railway station
Havana Central (Spanish: La Habana Central; the "Central Railway Station", Estación Central de Ferrocarriles), is the main railway terminal in Havana and the largest railway station in Cuba, is the hub of the rail system in the country.
Paseo del Prado, Havana
Paseo del Prado, is a street in Havana, Cuba, on the dividing line between Centro Habana and Old Havana. Technically, the Paseo includes entire length of Paseo Martí, including: The divided street with promenade extending from the Malecón at San Salvador de la Punta Fortress south to Neptuno Street The street along the west side of the Parque Central The street on the east side of the Capitolio The area around the Fuente de la India fountain.