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Reinforced concrete. The Malecón (officially Avenida de Maceo) is a broad esplanade, roadway, and seawall that stretches for 8 km (5 miles) along the coast in Havana, Cuba, [ 1 ] from the mouth of Havana Harbor in Old Havana, along the north side of the Centro Habana neighborhood and the Vedado neighborhood, ending at the mouth of the Almendares .
The malecón crosses the district of Miraflores and is composed of three different sectors: the Malecón de la Marina, the Malecón Cisneros, and the Malecón de la Reserva. [2] Another two malecones, 28 de Julio and Balta, separate the Malecón Cisneros from the other two malecones, being connected by the Puente Villena Rey. [3]
Malecón, Puerto Vallarta. The Malecón is a 12-block, mile-long esplanade in Puerto Vallarta 's Centro and Zona Romántica, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. [1][2][3][4] The waterfront crosses the Cuale River via Puente Río Cuale. Built between 1935 and 1936, it was expanded between 1940 and 1952. In 2002, the Malecón was destroyed by ...
The American battleship Maine exploded in Havana harbor on February 15, 1898, killing two officers and 250 sailors. Fourteen of the survivors eventually died of their injuries, bringing the death toll to a total 266. A board of inquiry concluded that the explosion was caused by a mine placed outside the ship, and the release of the board’s ...
Opposite the site are the city walls demolished in 1863. The National Capitol of Cuba, also known as Capitolio Nacional de La Habana (National Capitol of La Habana), and often simply referred to as El Capitolio(The Capitol), is a public edifice in Havana, the capital of Cuba. The building was commissioned by Cuban president Gerardo Machado and ...
Antonio Maceo Monument. La Casa de Beneficencia, the hotel Manhattan on Calles Belascoáin and San Lazaro, by the U.S. Engineering firm of Purdy and Henderson, and the Hotel Vista Alegre also at the beginning of Calle Belascoáin, anchored a geographically important corner close to the sea of the large expanse of land known as El Barrio San Lazaro and within it and immediately to the north was ...
Millennium ( Spanish: "El Milenio") is a 2001 sculpture by Mathis Lidice (also known as Félix Fernando Baños López), [1] installed at the north end of Puerto Vallarta 's Malecón, in the Mexican state of Jalisco. [2] According to Fodor's, the artwork "represents history and the passage of time. DNA at its base depicts the origin of life and ...
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar) is a biosphere reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] managed by the federal government of Mexico, specifically by Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, in collaboration with the state governments of Sonora and the Tohono O'odham.