Ciudad de La Habana (syoo-DAHD dai lah ah-BAH-nah), province, W Cuba, centered around the city of Havana, on the Straits of Florida; Havana. Surrounded on 3 sides by La Habana prov. Created as part of the jurisdictional reorganization of the isl. in 1976, this is the most densely settled part of Cuba. Its roughly 650,000 non-metropolitan residents are distributed among a well-integrated network of small towns outside the metro. limits of Havana City. The prov. straddles both the Florida Straits on its N shore and the Caribbean Sea on its S side, with an average width of just 31 mi/50 km. Rolling topography, with hills 300 ft/91 m–900 ft/274 m high, transects the prov. along an E-W pattern. The S side opens to marshlands while the N end has good beaches. Agr. and light industry characterize its economy, the latter noted for 2 major textile centers in Alquizar and Ariguanabo. A key resource is the 53 billion cu ft/1.5 billion cu m of underground water, plus another 13.3 million cu ft/375 million cu m in reserves. Demand for fresh water for growing urban areas threatens to draw salt water into the wells of Cuenca Sur, El Gato, and Ariguanabo.
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Havana. Surrounded on 3 sides by La Habana prov. Created as part of the jurisdictional reorganization of the isl. in 1976, this is the most densely settled part of Cuba. Its roughly 650,000 non-metropolitan residents are distributed among a well-integrated network of small towns outside the metro. limits of Havana City. The prov. straddles both the Florida Straits on its N shore and the Caribbean Sea on its S side, with an average width of just 31 mi/50 km. Rolling topography, with hills 300 ft/91 m–900 ft/274 m high, transects the prov. along an E-W pattern. The S side opens to marshlands while the N end has good beaches. Agr. and light industry characterize its economy, the latter noted for 2 major textile centers in Alquizar and Ariguanabo. A key resource is the 53 billion cu ft/1.5 billion cu m of underground water, plus another 13.3 million cu ft/375 million cu m in reserves. Demand for fresh water for growing urban areas threatens to draw salt water into the wells of Cuenca Sur, El Gato, and Ariguanabo.
