Canteras
Canteras is a quarry in Diez De Octubre, La Habana Province. Canteras is situated nearby to the forest La Loma Verde, as well as near the power station Batería Grupo Electrógeno Loma Verde.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cine Alameda and Church of St. John Bosco.
Cine Alameda
Movie theater
Photo: Antonio Schubert, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cine Alameda is a movie theater, which is situated 2 km northwest of Canteras.
Church of St. John Bosco
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Church of St. John Bosco is situated 3½ km northwest of Canteras.
Villa Marista
Building
Villa Marista is a prison in Havana, Cuba, notorious for its detention of political prisoners by the Cuban national security agency. Its prisoners have included dissident Vladimiro Roca and politician Jesús Escandell. Villa Marista is situated 3 km west of Canteras.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Regla and Chinatown.
Regla
Town
Photo: Ivan2010, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Regla is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs in the city of Havana, Cuba. It comprises the town of Regla, located at the bottom of Havana Bay in a former aborigine settlement named Guaicanamar, Loma Modelo in a peninsula dividing Marimelena from Guasabacoa inlets, and the village of Casablanca located at the entry of the Havana Bay. Regla is situated 6 km north of Canteras.
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 6 km north of Canteras.
Havana
Photo: Rastapopulous, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Havana is the capital city of Cuba, and one of the fifteen provinces of the Republic of Cuba. Visitors come to Havana for its music, history, culture, architecture and monuments.
Canteras
- Type: Quarry
- Category: industry
- Location: Diez De Octubre, La Habana Province, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.0794° or 23° 4′ 46″ northLongitude
-82.35037° or 82° 21′ 1″ westOpen location code
76MV3JHX+QVOpenStreetMap ID
way 228323622OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=quarry
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