La Víbora, Havana

La Víbora is a ward (consejo popular) within the municipality of Diez de Octubre, Havana, Cuba.

La Víbora was founded in 1689, as a small town where the exchange of horses would occur for caravans traveling from Havana to Güines.

Famous residents included Antonio Bachiller y Morales, president José Miguel Gómez, Rafael Trejo, Carlos Enríquez, Mariano Rodríguez, musician Jorge Anckermann, diplomat Raúl Roa, and Manuel Cofiño, Elena Josefina Lozano Wilson.

La Víbora is mentioned in the Broadway musical In the Heights in the song "Paciencia y Fe" (English: "Patience and Faith").

In the song, Abuela Claudia recounts growing up in La Víbora before moving to New York City with her mother, describing it as "the Washington Heights of Havana" and asking herself "Are you better off than you were with the birds of La Víbora?