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]] Havana ( Spanish in full: '''San Cristóbal de La Habana''', usually shortened to just '''La Habana'''; of Cuba and, with a population of 2.2 million, the largest city of Cuba . It is located at and is just over a 100 miles (160 km) south-southwest of Key West, Florida . The city of Havana ("Ciudad de la Habana") is one of the 14 Provinces Of Cuba . As of 2002, it had 2,201,610 inhabitants. History ]] Conquistador Diego Velázquez De Cuéllar founded Havana in 1515 on the southern coast of the island, near the current town Surgidero de Batabanó. Havana moved to its current location by the then called Carenas bay in 1519 . Havana was originally a trading port, and became the capital of the Spanish colony of Cuba in 1607 , and the main port of the Spanish colonies in the New World . Havana suffered from being burnt by Buccaneer s in 1538 , and looted in 1555 and 1553 . Great Britain seized the city in 1762 in the Seven Years' War , when they opened the port to free trade, bringing in thousands of Enslaved Africans . When the war was over, they exchanged it for Florida the following year. After regaining the city, the Spanish made it the most heavily fortified city in the Americas. In the 1920s during Prohibition in the United States , Havana, along with Montreal , became a popular vacation destination for U.S. citizens; the nightclubs and gambling survived Repeal Of Prohibition , but most were closed in 1959 after the Cuban Revolution . On the night of July 8-9, 2005, the city took a direct hit from Hurricane Dennis . Municipalities The city is divided into 15 municipios - municipalities or boroughs. # Arroyo Naranjo # Boyeros # Centro Habana # Cerro # Cotorro # Diez De Octubre # Guanabacoa # La Habana Del Este # La Habana Vieja ( Old Havana ) # La Lisa # Marianao # Playa (includes Miramar , and extends to Santa Fe in the west) # Plaza De La Revolución (sometimes abbreviated to 'Plaza'; includes Vedado ) # Regla # San Miguel Del Padrón Other Places in Havana
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Other images Image:Capitolio_havana.jpg|Havana, Capitol Building Image:Map of Havana.jpg|1888 German map of Havana Image:Cuba.HabanaVieja.Street.01.jpg|Old Havana, 2002 Image:Havana kids malecon.jpg|Havana, Malecón, 2003 Image:Habana_P.jpg|Panoramic view of Havana in 2004 Image:Cuba.Habana.Malecon.01.jpg|Dusk on Havana's waterfront Image:Cuba009.jpg|The Moro Castle by night Image:Cuba011.jpg|Hotel Nacional de Cuba seen from Malecon Image:Cuba010.jpg|At the Necropolis Colon Image:Cuba014.jpg|Center of La Habana Image:Cuba015.jpg|Vedado district Image:Cuba012.jpg|Malecon at the Hotel Nacional See also
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