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Santiago de las Vegas

Santiago de las Vegas is a ward of Boyeros, a municipality of Havana, Cuba, located 20 km (12 mi) south of the city center.

Santiago de las Vegas
Santiago de las Vegas · Motohiro Sunouchi
The place

Santiago de las Vegas is a ward of Boyeros, a municipality of Havana, Cuba, located 20 km (12 mi) south of the city center. As of 2012, the population was 32,958. The Cuban government maintains an agricultural experiment station as well as a meteorology center in the city.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Santiago de las Vegas

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.

  1. 01
    El Cacahual Monument

    The Monumento El Cacahual is a monument located to the south of Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. It is dedicated to and is the resting place of the remains of Antonio Maceo, second-in-command of the Cuban Liberation Army, and Panchito Gómez Toro, son of General Máximo Gómez.

    3.8 km · monument and mausoleum for the remains of Antonio Maceo, Mayabeque Province, Cuba · 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 Santiago de las Vegas

Airports
José Martí (HAV), 3 km · Juan Gualberto Gomez (VRA), 97 km · Abel Santamaria (SNU), 255 km
Stations
José Martí International Airport, 3.4 km
  • Matanzas → Santiago de las Vegas
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $10–13
  • Santa Clara → Santiago de las Vegas
    256 km · quickest by road, 4h 42m · $23–31
  • Santiago → Santiago de las Vegas
    12 km · quickest by road, 40 min · CLP$1,030–1,370
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Santiago de las Vegas

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 Santiago de las Vegas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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  5. 05
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If you know how people move in Santiago de las Vegas – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Santiago de las Vegas

Santiago de las Vegas is 17 km from Havana, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.