Abstract
Authors have been conducting the field research under the title ‘Origin, Transformation, Alteration and Conservation of Urban Space of Colonial cities’ since 1999. This paper discusses the characteristics of the Spanish Colonial cities created in the Cuba Island. In the period of the Spanish urbanism in America, approximately a sixty of colonial cities were established in Cuba. As cartographic database, 916 images and maps from AGI (The Archive of the Indies in Seville-Archivo de Indias de Sevilla), are used for analysis.This paper deals with hatos and corrals system, which is very unique land distribution system in Cuba. In the analysis of maps of hatos and corrals, we classify them into several types and analyze the case of La Habana.
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