Road of Malezas explained

Country:CUB
Carretera de Malezas
Route:311
Image Notes:Kilometer 16 in San Francisco, Encrucijada
Municipalities:Santa Clara, Encrucijada
Provinces:Villa Clara
Translation:Road of Malezas
Junctions:Santa Clara Beltway
Original Road to Santa Clara Airport
Road to Santa Clara Airport
Encrucijada Beltway (CN)
Type:4
Direction A:South
Direction B:North
Terminus A:Avenida Eduardo Chibás (Santa Clara)
Terminus B:Calzada de Maceo (Encrucijada)
Alternate Name:Santa Clara–Encrucijada Road
4–311

The Road of Malezas (Spanish: Carretera de Malezas), also spelled Road of Maleza (Spanish: Carretera de Maleza), is a north–south Cuban state highway connecting the municipalities of Santa Clara to Encrucijada in Villa Clara Province.

History

In April 2022, villages along the road have been without public transportation for over a month, with an estimate of 30,000 residents in the towns of Jardin, Padagogico, Las Flores, and El Sopapo, due to a fuel crisis in Cuba so bad that it's being compared to the Special Period.[1]

In June 2024, at 2:00am, a tourist bus hit a lose cow on the road, killing it. This type of accident is apparently common on this road, especially late at night and early in the morning.[2]

Route

The road starts in the city of Santa Clara from Calle Pazos and the junction with the Avenida Eduardo Chibas, which later goes into the Road to Sagua. It has a redlight at the junction with the Santa Clara Beltway, and after goes above the railway lines north of Santa Clara, where its known as the El Elevado Bridge. It goes through several villages, then has two junctions to get the Abel Santamaría Airport, then continues across two more villages, and then enters the municipality of Encrucijada, where it continues across three more villages until the town of Dos Hermanas, where it has a junction going to Calabazar de Sagua, and the road continues until Encrucijada, going under the newly made Encrucijada Beltway (part of the Circuito Norte), the road to Abel Santamaria, and finally ends at the Calzada de Maceo as the 6ta Avenida Sur.[3]

The section going from the Santa Clara Beltway to El Elevado is known to be full of potholes and mud, causing four people traveling in a privately owned Lada to crash into a traffic sign on the road.[4]

MunicipalityLocationkmmiDestinationNotes
Santa ClaraSanta Clara0Avenida Eduardo Chibás – Cifuentes, Sagua La Grande
0.2Calle 5ta
0.29Calle C (Detour of Malezas)
0.83Calle 17
0.98Calle 19
1.17Callejón del Prado
1.50Santa Clara Beltway / To CC
2.04El Elevado Bridge
[5] Laboratorio Provincial de Sanidad Vegetal de Villa Clara
[6] La Granjita Hotel
4.17Ciudad Escolar Ernesto Che Guevara
4.25Club of the MININT
Ovidio Rivero5.47Calle 7ma
El Jardin6.08Calle 14
6.11Calle 8va
6.95
Parroquia7.32Calle 4ta
Las Minas7.68
Malezas8.73Calle F
[7] El Cohete
La Guayaba8.99Calle H
9.04Calle J
9.11Calle K – Los Lagos
9.17 Santa Clara Air Base
9.26
9.40Los Lagos
Oropesa10.33Calle 5ta
11[8] [9] Original Road to the Airport – Abel Santamaría Airport
Frank Pais10.97Calle 6ta
11.05
11.12Calle 12
11.19Calle 14 Oeste
11.25 Club of the FAR
11.60Loma La Bayoya
11.83 Road to Santa Clara Airport – Abel Santamaría Airport, Camajuaní, Cayo Santa María
12.08
San Miguel12.85
12.99Calle A
13.32Calle 8va
13.77Camino los Cocos
Estancia Vieja15.92Calle 6ta
15.98Calle 7ma
EncrucijadaSan Francisco18.01 To Military Base
El Chivo19.71Calle C
Marties de Angola21.66Calle 4ta
21.85Calle 2da
22.21Road to Braulio Coroneaux
Dos Hermanas22.88Road to Calabazar – Calabazar de Sagua
Encrucijada26.74Road to El Mosquito – El Mosquito
26.90Encrucijada Beltway / CN
27.14Avenida 8va del Este – Abel Santamaria
27.25Avenida 4ta del Este
27.37Calzada de MaceoContinues as 6ta Avenida Sur

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hernández . Normando . 2022-04-26 . Sin transporte urbano la zona de Maleza . 2024-09-02 . ICLEP . es.
  2. Web site: 2024-07-20 . Ómnibus impacta a una vaca en carretera de Santa Clara . 2024-09-01 . CiberCuba . es.
  3. Web site: OpenStreetMap . 2024-09-02 . OpenStreetMap . en.
  4. Web site: Hernández . Normando . 2024-07-28 . Accidente en la carretera a Malezas pone en riesgo la seguridad vial . 2024-09-02 . ICLEP . es.
  5. Web site: Composición química del fruto de dos especies del Bosque Seco Tropical en la región costera del Ecuador como fuente de alimento para los rumiantes . 2024-09-02 . cagricola.uclv.edu.cu.
  6. Web site: Hotels in Cuba: Advice & Booking - NovelaCuba.com . 2024-09-02 . novelacuba.com . en.
  7. Web site: Oct 20, 2021 . Comercio . . es.
  8. Web site: Santa Clara Airport SNU Contact Info . 2024-09-02 . www.airportcuba.net.
  9. Web site: Airports serving Cayo Santa Maria, Cuba . 2024-09-02 . www.cayosantamaria.info.