Alamar
Alamar, also known as Alamar-Playa, is a district in east part of the city of La Habana in Cuba, part of the municipio of Habana del Este.
Alamar, also known as Alamar-Playa, is a district in east part of the city of La Habana in Cuba, part of the municipio of Habana del Este. This district is primarily prefabrication construction of Soviet-style architecture. Because of this, Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores has described it as "The Heart of The Russian Barrio". The president of the ward is Margarita Basilia Araujo Suárez.
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Worth seeing in and around Alamar
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Estadio Panamericano
Pan American Stadium is a multi-use stadium located near Cojimar, a city ward of Havana, Cuba. It is used mostly for athletics.
3.2 km · Multi-purpose stadium in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia
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Getting to Alamar
- Airports
- José Martí (HAV), 23 km · Juan Gualberto Gomez (VRA), 88 km · Abel Santamaria (SNU), 251 km
- Matanzas → Alamar72 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · $7–10
- Santa Clara → Alamar251 km · quickest by road, 4h 27m · $22–30
- Santiago → Alamar6415 km · quickest by air, 15h 42m · CLP$517,010–801,400
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Alamar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alamar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inTerminal 1 is for internal (domestic) flights, Terminal 2 is mainly for charter flights and some scheduled flights from the United States and Terminal 3 is used for all other international flights.
- Get inTaking the bus will take longer than a taxi colectivo.
- Get inFor passengers transferring to reach Terminal 3, By colectivo – A taxi colectivo route follows the same route as bus P-12 between Parque Fraternid (Simon Bolivar, just west of Fraternidad), and stops for Terminals 1 (stops on Avenida Rancho Boyeros at Avenida Van Troi) and Terminal 2 (stops on Avenida Rancho Boyeros at Carretera De Murgas).
- Get inTaxis colectivos are more frequent than the bus, will stop less than the bus and only has seated passengers, but are likely not suitable to accommodate space for more than one full-sized travel, hiking backpack or passenger.
- Get inRancho Boyeros, just walk to the nearest road (GPS: 23.0, -82.41058) and take some passing shared taxi or bus, for usually less than 100 CUP.
From Wikivoyage: Havana, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Alamar
Alamar is 11 km from Havana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Guanabacoadistrict in Province Havana, Cuba4.6 km
- Habana del Estemunicipality of Cuba1.6 km
- Cojímarsmall fishing village east of Havana, Cuba800 m