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Habana.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
Habana.
Principal English Translation: 

La Habana, Cuba, a place name
(a loanword from Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
la uaaña, haJabana
Attestations from sources in English: 

la uaaña = Havana (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 56–57.

yaoquisque haJabana sando domingo = At this time they went to war at Havana and Santo Domingo (entry for 1583)
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 170–171.