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Calabazar

Calabazar is a ward of the city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, belonging to the municipal borough of Boyeros.

Calabazar
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The place

Calabazar is a ward of the city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, belonging to the municipal borough of Boyeros. In 2011, it had a population of 20,069.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Calabazar

2 places 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.

  1. 01
    Parque Lenin

    Parque Lenin is a recreational park complex in Arroyo Naranjo, Havana, Cuba. It is Havana's largest recreational area, occupying 670 hectares.

    1.8 km · park in Havana, Cuba · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    University of Pedagogical Sciences

    The University of Pedagogical Sciences "Hector Alfredo Pineda Zaldivar", originally named "Héctor Alfredo Pineda Zaldívar Higher Pedagogical Institute" is a Higher Education, post-graduate and doctoral research university located in Boyeros, Havana, Cuba. It has the mission to prepare professors capable of developing high level professionals in different areas of engineering.

    2.6 km · cuba's University · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Calabazar

Airports
José Martí (HAV), 5 km · Juan Gualberto Gomez (VRA), 96 km · Abel Santamaria (SNU), 256 km
  • Matanzas → Calabazar
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · $9–12
  • Santa Clara → Calabazar
    29 km · quickest by road, 56 min · $2.5–3.5
  • Santiago → Calabazar
    6401 km · quickest by air, 14h 53m · CLP$516,960–801,330
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Calabazar

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 Calabazar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    789 km
  2. 02
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    831 km
  3. 03
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,036 km
  4. 04
    Isla de OmetepeNI

    12 ways of moving, 49 sources

    1,326 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,687 km

If you know how people move in Calabazar – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Calabazar

Calabazar is 13 km from Havana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Boyerosmunicipality of Havana3.1 km