Miss Universe 2014: Little Havana Miami PICTURES!

OHMYGOSSIP — The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida. Tune in to the NBC telecast at 8:00 PM ET on January 25, 2015 live from the FIU Arena to see who will be crowned the 63rd Miss Universe. 

Niketa Barker, Miss Universe Guyana 2014; Patricia da Silva, Miss Universe Portugal 2014; Sharr Htut Eaindra, Miss Universe Myanmar 2014; Elise Dalby, Miss Universe Norway 2014; Laurien Angelista, Miss Universe Curacao 2014; Roxanne Didier-Nicholas, Miss Universe St. Lucia 2014; Queen Celestine, Miss Universe Nigeria 2014; Marianne Page, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2014; Zoe Metthez, Miss Universe Switzerland 2014; and Saly Greige, Miss Universe Lebanon 2014; during filming in Little Havana Miami on Tuesday, January 13th.

Roxanne Didier-Nicholas, Miss Universe St. Lucia 2014; Patricia da Silva, Miss Universe Portugal 2014; and Laurien Angelista, Miss Universe Curacao 2014

Zoe Metthez, Miss Universe Switzerland 2014; Marianne Page, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2014; Patricia da Silva, Miss Universe Portugal 2014; and Roxanne Didier-Nicholas, Miss Universe St. Lucia 2014

Niketa Barker, Miss Universe Guyana 2014, during filming in Little Havana Miami on Tuesday, January 13th

Roxanne Didier-Nicholas, Miss Universe St. Lucia 2014; Saly Greige, Miss Universe Lebanon 2014; Elise Dalby, Miss Universe Norway 2014; and Laurien Angelista, Miss Universe Curacao 2014

Sharr Htut Eaindra, Miss Universe Myanmar 2014; Marianne Page, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2014; and Queen Celestine, Miss Universe Nigeria 2014

Elise Dalby, Miss Universe Norway 2014; Roxanne Didier-Nicholas, Miss Universe St. Lucia 2014; Saly Greige, Miss Universe Lebanon 2014; and Sharr Htut Eaindra, Miss Universe Myanmar 2014

Elise Dalby, Miss Universe Norway 2014, during filming in Little Havana Miami on Tuesday, January 13th. The 63rd Annual MISS UNIVERSE® Pageant contestants are touring, filming, rehearsing and preparing to compete for the DIC Crown in Doral-Miami, Florida

Photos: © Miss Universe/ Joseph Mainhart

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Little Havana (Spanish: La Pequeña Habana) is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. Home to many Cuban immigrant residents, as well as many residents from Central and South America, Little Havana is named after Havana, the capital and largest city in Cuba.

Little Havana is noted as a center of social, cultural, and political activity in Miami. Its festivals, including the Calle Ocho Festival, Viernes Culturales/Cultural Fridays, the Three Kings Parade and others, have been televised to millions of people every year on different continents. It is also known for its landmarks, including Calle Ocho (SW 8th Street/Tamiami Trail), and its Walk of Fame (for famous artists and Latin personalities, including Celia Cruz, Willy Chirino, and Gloria Estefan), the Cuban Memorial Boulevard, Plaza de la Cubanidad, Domino Park, the Tower Theater, Jose Marti Park, the Firestone/Walgreens Building, St. John Bosco Catholic Church, Municipio de Santiago de Cuba and others. It is undoubtedly the best known neighborhood for Cuban exiles in the world. Little Havana is characterized by a robust street life, excellent restaurants, music and other cultural activities, mom and pop enterprises, political passion, and great warmth amongst its residents.

Originally a lower-middle-class Southern and a thriving Jewish neighborhood in the 1930s. The name “Little Havana” emerged in the 1960s as the concentration of Cubans in the area grew sharply. Little Havana is the name affixed to a sprawling neighborhood lying immediately west of Downtown Miami. It stretches west from the Miami River for several miles. This sobriquet was applied to the Shenandoah and Riverside neighborhoods in the 1960s, following the beginnings of a vast influx of Cuban refugees there. Little Havana is famous as the cultural and political capital of Cuban Americans, and the neighborhood is a center of the Cuban exile community.

As of 2011, Little Havana has the highest concentration of Hispanics (98%) in Miami. Within the Hispanic population, the Cuban population has experienced a substantial decrease from 84% in 1979 to 58% in 1989; however, a group of Hispanics from other countries, especially those from Nicaragua, Honduras, and other Central Americans countries has substantially increased since the late-1990s.

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