San Miguel del Padrón is a municipality in Havana

Havana

Havana is the capital city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of — making it the largest city in the Caribbean region, and the most populous...

 city, Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

. It is one of the 15 municipalities into which the city is divided. It is on Havana's south-eastern outskirts, stretching from Ciudad Mar

Ciudad Mar

CiudaMar is a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba.Populated after the 60's, this neighberhood is known for its residential aspect, making the difference with other zones of the area. Spite of the buildings, located in the late 80s, this amount of streets are still quite......

 to Diezmero

Diezmero

Diezmero is a district in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, located by Carretera Central. It is under the administration of San Miguel del Padrón municipality. Its demography spreads within about 2 square kilometers....

 and from Reparto Mañana to Caballo Blanco.

This vast demographic area was unpopulated in the late 40s, with small pockets of wealthy and land owners. It became heavily populated during the early 60s with the emergence of Corea (name given to a stretch of terrain clandestinely occupied by the homeless after being evicted from the main city areas) and new houses along the main street (Calzada de San Miguel). By the mid 60s the town became administratively adjacent to Guanabacoa.

San Miguel has been notorious for musicians, professional dancers and afro Cuban religious practitioners (Santería

Santería

Santería is a syncretic religion of West African and Caribbean origin influenced by Roman Catholic Christianity, also known as Regla de Ocha, La Regla Lucumi, or Lukumi. Its liturgical language, a dialect of Yoruba, is also known as Lucumi....

, Lukumi, Palo

Palo (religion)

Palo, or Las Reglas de Congo are a group of closely related religions or denominations, which developed in the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean amongst Central African slaves of mostly Bantu ancestry...

). During the early 1970s it was judicially declared one of the most troublesome towns in Havana due to a high degree of black market goods and comestibles.

Demographics

In 2004, the municipality of San Miguel del Padrón had a population of 159,273. With a total area of 26 km² (10 sq mi), it has a population density of 6125.9 /km2.

Presently, residents extending out of a radious from Virgen del Camino, Martin Perez, Diezmero, San Francisco de Paula y Juanelo identify as sanmiguelinos. Thus, Making this geographic area a vastly populated region of Havana.