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About the Area

On September 23, 1763, an urban police ordinance issued by Captain General Ambrosio Torres de Villalpando, Count of Ricla, came into force, which established the first territorial division of San Cristóbal de La Habana, which was then divided into four barracks. or neighborhoods subject to the jurisdiction of a council member. This distribution did not last long, since in 1770 Governor Antonio María Bucarely divided the population into two quarters: Punta and Campeche, which in turn were subdivided into eight neighborhoods. The first corresponded to those of Dragons, the Angel, the Star and Monserrate; while the second included San Francisco, Santa Teresa, Paula and San Isidro; appointing neighborhood commissioners from among the residents with the greatest roots and solvency instead of the former councilors. These first arrangements were limited to the walled area, since the extramural area lacked demographic weight and its buildings were of little value.

In 1807 a new division was put into practice, which expanded the neighborhoods to sixteen: San Francisco, Santa Clara, Santa Teresa, Ursulines, Espíritu Santo, Paula, San Isidro, Belén, de la Casa de Gobierno, Santo Domingo, San Felipe, Monserrate, San Juan de Dios, Santo Ángel, San Telmo and la Fuerza; while the Party Captaincies were created outside the walls, led by the local captains.

1829 Plan of Havana and its extramural neighborhoods
1829 Plan of Havana and its extramural neighborhoods

The new demarcation remained in force until 1841, when Captain General Gerónimo Valdés, taking into account the expansion reached by the city beyond the walls, decided to divide the outer population into six neighborhoods: San Lázaro, Nueva Cárcel, Guadalupe, Peñalver, Jesús María and Chavez.

In 1851 the colonial administration set new limits and divided the city into two large districts, named Eastern and Western. Thus, for the first time the outer-city neighborhoods of Cerro, Jesús del Monte, Arroyo Apolo or the ultra-marine towns of Regla and Casa Blanca were considered an integral part of the city. The Eastern district, within which the current municipality of Old Havana was located, was fragmented into two districts and these in turn into neighborhoods, thus, the first, in the northern part, called Catedral, included the neighborhoods of Templete, San Felipe, Santo Cristo, San Juan de Dios, Santo Ángel and Casa Blanca; while the second, called Espíritu Santo, covered the southern half of the old enclosure, and was made up of the neighborhoods of San Francisco, Santa Clara, Santa Teresa, Paula and San Isidro.

With the advent of the Republic, the municipal district of Havana came to include 43 neighborhoods, of which 15 occupied the old part of the city: Arsenal, Ceiba, Jesús María, Paula, San Felipe, San Francisco, San Juan de Dios , Santa Clara, Santo Ángel, Santo Cristo, San Isidro, Santa Teresa, Templete, Villanueva and Vives.

A new division in 1963 created the Habana Vieja section within the Central Havana Region. With the approval in 1976 of the new administrative political division, the municipality of Old Havana was born, one of the fifteen that make up the country's capital. Since 1990, the municipalities were subdivided into Popular Councils, leaving six within Old Havana: Prado, Catedral, Plaza Vieja, Belén, Jesús María and Tallapiedra. Later, the Popular Council of Belén was divided into two: Belén and San Isidro.

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