Bauta is a municipality and town located 40 km southwest of Havana City, in the Artemisa Province of Cuba since 2010 as a result of the division of what was the Province of Havana.

Artemisa Province is one of the two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Mayabeque Pr