Majá–Taguasco Road

{{Infobox road

| country = CUB

| name = Majá–Taguasco Road

| marker_image =

| map = Carretera Majá–Taguasco (OpenStreetMap).png

| map_notes = Majá–Taguasco Road seen in blue, with the A1 motorway seen in orange north of the road, Carretera Central seen in orange south of the road, and the A1 planned section seen in white and red north of the road

| image =

| image_alt =

| image_notes =

| length_km = 8.31

| established =

| alternate_name = Carretera Majá–Taguasco
Enlace Autopista–Carretera Central (Motorway–Carretera Central Link Road)

| towns = Taguasco

| direction_a = North

| direction_b = South

| terminus_a = x24px A1 in Taguasco

| terminus_b = x24px 4–N–1 in El Maja

| junctions = Zaza del Medio–Taguasco Road in Taguasco

}}

The Majá–Taguasco Road (Carretera Majá–Taguasco), also known as the Motorway–Carretera Central Link Road (Enlace Autopista–Carretera Central) is a north–south highway connecting the town of Taguasco and the end of the Autopista Nacional (A–1) to the town of El Majá and the Carretera Central (N–1, 4–N–1 in this region) in Cuba.

History

Before the A1 motorway was extended to Taguasco in the late 1980s, the road was mostly unused, with reporters saying there being less than five tractors and three horse drawn carriages per day. After the motorway couldn't get extended past Taguasco, the Majá–Taguasco Road became a heavily used road way connecting the far east and far west of the country, with it being the entrance and exit of the Autopista Nacional, the fastest roadway in the country. This caused heavy overuse of the road, with about 2,000 vehicles moving through it each day.{{Cite web |last=Spiritus |first=Escambray Sancti |date=2017-11-19 |title=Sancti Spíritus: Ya da paso el camino de El Majá |url=https://www.escambray.cu/2017/sancti-spiritus-ya-da-paso-el-camino-de-el-maja/ |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=Escambray |language=es}}

In 2017, the road was closed due to repairs on the overused road for around a month. This caused any east–west traffic to instead take the Sancti Spíritus–Yaguajay Road (4–571) in order to get to the other side of the country.{{Cite news |date=2017-10-16 |title=Autopista Nacional: Suspenden circulación vial en tramo de Sancti Spíritus - Cubadebate |url=http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2017/10/16/autopista-nacional-suspenden-circulacion-vial-en-tramo-villa-clara-sancti-spiritus/amp/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241225125024/http://www.cubadebate.cu/noticias/2017/10/16/autopista-nacional-suspenden-circulacion-vial-en-tramo-villa-clara-sancti-spiritus/amp/ |archive-date=2024-12-25 |access-date=2025-02-16 |work=Cubadebate - Cubadebate, Por la Verdad y las Ideas |language=es-ES}} This used 2,530 tons of asphalt, and repaired every pothole in the road.{{Cite web |title=Ya se puede pasar por El Majá |url=https://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2017-11-20/ya-se-puede-pasar-por-el-maja |access-date=2025-02-16 |website=www.juventudrebelde.cu |language=es}}

Junction list

class="wikitable"

!Municipality

!Location

!km

!mi

!Destination{{Cite web |title = OpenStreetMap |url = https://www.openstreetmap.org/ |access-date = 17 February 2025 |website = OpenStreetMap |language = en }}

!Notes

rowspan="4" |Taguasco

| rowspan="2" |Taguasco

|{{convert|0.00|km|mi|2|disp=table}}

|{{jct|A|1|country=CUB|name1=Autopista Nacional|city1=Havana}}

|Kilometer 336 on the A1

|Taguasco–Zaza del Media Road (Calle Camilo Cienfuegos)

Las Margaritas

|{{convert|1.78|km|mi|2|disp=table}}

|Las Margaritas Bridge

|Bridge over the Ferrocarril Central (Central Railway)

|{{convert|2.69|km|mi|2|disp=table}}