Miramar
Miramar is a residential district of the municipality of Playa, in the city of Havana.Photo: Happypepe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Mariordo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: Historic neighborhood in Havana, Cuba
- Also known as: “Miramar, Havana” and “Reparto Miramar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include National Aquarium and Theater Karl Marx.
National Aquarium
Theme park
Photo: Patrick Nouhailler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Acuario Nacional de Cuba is an aquarium in Havana, Cuba established in 1960 to focus on "research and environmental education". Displays include those of coral and other tropical species, as well as a dolphinarium and sea lion shows.
Theater Karl Marx
Theater building
Photo: Mosbo6, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Karl Marx Theatre is a theatre in Havana, Cuba. It was originally known as the Teatro Blanquita, owned and built by Alfredo Hornedo, renamed to the Teatro Charles Chaplin following the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and was named after Karl Marx in 1975.
Iglesia de Jesús de Miramar
Church
Photo: Callelinea, Public domain.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vedado and Marianao.
Vedado
Suburb
Photo: Sandino235, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Vedado is a central business district and urban neighborhood in the city of Havana, Cuba. Bordered on the east by Calzada de Infanta and Central Havana, and on the west by the Alemendares River and Miramar / Playa district, Vedado is a more modern part of the city than the areas to the east, developed in the first half of the 20th century, during the Republic period. Vedado is situated 4½ km northeast of Miramar.
Marianao
Suburb
Marianao is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs in the city of Havana, Cuba. It lies 10 kilometres southwest of the original city of Havana, with which it is connected by the Marianao railway. Marianao is situated 5 km south of Miramar.
Chinatown
Neighborhood
Photo: Lezumbalaberenjena, Public domain.
The Havana Chinatown is located in the municipality of Centro Habana and is one of the oldest and largest Chinatowns in Latin America. It was once considered the second most important in the world, after that of San Francisco in the United States. Chinatown is situated 7 km east of Miramar.
Miramar
- Categories: human settlement, barrio, and locality
- Location: Plaza De La Revolucion, La Habana Province, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.11763° or 23° 7′ 4″ northLongitude
-82.43119° or 82° 25′ 52″ westElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
76MV4H99+3GOpenStreetMap ID
node 2300280577OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Swedish—“Miramar” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Мірамар”
- Chinese: “米拉馬爾 (哈瓦那)”
- Danish: “Miramar”
- Dutch: “Miramar”
- French: “Miramar”
- German: “Miramar”
- Haitian: “Miramar, Avan”
- Irish: “Miramar”
- Italian: “Miramar”
- Japanese: “ミラマール”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Miramar”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Miramar”
- Persian: “میرامار، هاوانا”
- Polish: “Miramar”
- Portuguese: “Miramar”
- Russian: “Мирамар”
- Spanish: “Miramar”
- Swedish: “Miramar”
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