Boyeros hosts the Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales para la Agricultura Tropical ("International Institute for the Investigation of Tropical Agricolture", INIFAT), which was preceded by the Estación Experimental Agronómica de Cuba as the first agronomic research station founded in Latin America in 1904.

Boyers overcomes 14 sport buildings of which there are 5 baseball parks, a chess academy, a table tennis field and a shooting gallery.

Among the local sport personalities there are the famous players Juan Padilla, Pedro Chávez and Orlando Hernández.

The National Zoological Park of Boyeros contains 800 animals belonging to more than one hundred different species, towards an extension of 340 hectares.

It is designed in compliance with the state-of-the-art international standards for the zoological exposition of specimen in freedom and, by that, it is a special attraction for nature lovers.