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Cotorro

Cotorro, or San Pedro del Cotorro, is one of the 15 municipalities (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.

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Settlement.official_name: Cotorro
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality of Havana
Settlement.image_map: Havana Map - Cotorro.png
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Cotorro in Havana
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location of Cotorro in Cuba
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.leader_title: President
Settlement.leader_name: Yaima Valle Barrios
Settlement.area_total_km2: 66
Settlement.population_as_of: 2004
Settlement.population_total: 74650
Settlement.population_density_km2: 1131
Settlement.timezone: EST
Settlement.utc_offset: -5
Settlement.area_code: +53-7
Settlement.parts_type: Wards (Consejos Populares)

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Cotorro, or San Pedro del Cotorro, is one of the 15 municipalities (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.

==Overview== The municipality is situated by the Carretera Central (Central Highway), and main autopista (motorway). Cotorro is 16 km from Old Havana. Its foundation dates to 1822. By the end of the 1950s, Cotorro had grown in such a way that it was exceeding in extension and population to the head of the municipality.