Arroyo Naranjo is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (''
municipio
A ' () or ' () is an administrative division in several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively. It is often translated as "municipality." It comes from ''mūnicipium'' (), meaning a township.
In English, a municipality often is define ...
s'' in Spanish) in the city of
Havana
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. It became part of Havana city while the capital grew.
The
Managua Military Airport is located in the southern part of this municipality.
History
The borough was founded in 1845, and by 1848 its party was created. Arroyo Naranjo is situated south of
Old Havana
Old Havana () is the city-center (downtown) and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) forming Havana, Cuba. It has the second highest population density in the city and contains the core of the original city of Havana. The positions of the ...
on the Havana-Las Vegas highway, having been a stop of buses that were doing the service between these two cities. In 1858 Arroyo Naranjo had 291 inhabitants, who were increasing in the period of the baths, for the proximity to the medicinal waters known by the ''Cacahual''. Arroyo Naranjo had always a progressive population. From 291 inhabitants of 1858, in 1871 the town had 1,485.
In 1939, famed painter
Carlos Enriquez bought a small ranch house in Arroyo Naranjo, dubbed "El Huron Azul" (the Blue Ferret), which became a meeting-place for Cuba's avant-garde artists, and is now a museum dedicated to Enriquez' work.
[Martinez, Juan A.;''Cuban Art & National Identity: The Vanguardia Painters'', 1927-1950; University Press of Florida, 1994; ]
Demographics
In 2022, the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo had a population of 206,918.
With a total area of ,
it has a population density of .
See also
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List of cities in Cuba
This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order. Population data refers to city proper and not to the whole municipality, because they include large rural areas with several villages. All figu ...
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Municipalities of Cuba
The Provinces of Cuba, provinces of Cuba are divided into 168 municipality, municipalities (). They were defined by Cuban Law Number 1304 of July 3, 1976Fifth United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names, Vol. II, publish ...
References
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Populated places established in 1845
Municipalities of Havana
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