Tarará is a gated resort town in the municipality of Habana del Este in the city of Havana, Cuba.

It is about 19 km east of the city centre and west of other beaches including Santa Maria del Mar and Guanabo.

He later moved to Cuba where he continued to oversee the building of the railroads and, having loved the country, decided to make it his permanent home.

Tarará was a fast and easy trip to Havana and the airport, with newly paved highways going directly to the resort.

After the Cuban Revolution, in January 1959, Che Guevara went to live at a summer villa in Tarará to recover from a violent asthma attack.

[4] At the height of tight Cuban-Soviet relations, the town housed Russian officials stationed in Cuba, and for a while (early 1990s) functioned as a recovery resort for Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

In previous years Canadians, Italians and Spanish visitors rented the beach houses for long stay vacations for 1–6 months, but this has not been re-established yet as of 2009.