Santa Clara Beltway in Santa Clara The Carretera Central (CC), meaning "Central Road", is a west-east highway spanning the length of the island of Cuba.

Formal construction began in 1927 during the Gerardo Machado administration and its original layout of 1,139 km (707.7 mi) was completed in 1931.

[1] It runs along the island of Cuba from west to east, between Pinar del Río and Oriente.

It represented an extraordinary economic value during Machado and Fulgencio Batista's administrations.

The Carretera Central starts in the village of La Fe, a hamlet of Sandino, in the western province of Pinar del Río, and links all major cities and province capitals except Cienfuegos.