Centella Cave

Centella Cave: coast and water

3980 m at 314°: Punta Guanos Altos (point); 5060 m at 350°: Playa Bacalao (beach); 5060 m at 350°: Punta Hidalgo (point); 5060 m at 350°: Ensenada Abra (cove); 5450 m at 298°: Ensenada Buey Vaca (cove); 6630 m at 331°: Bahía de Matanzas (bay).

Centella Cave: inland

1100 m at 189°: San Antonio (locality); 1530 m at 34°: Dionisia (locality); 1530 m at 326°: Cairo Chico (locality); 1530 m at 326°: Fundador (locality); 2460 m at 304°: Canimao (hotel); 2860 m at 297°: Monticelo (locality); 2860 m at 297°: El Sol (locality); 3120 m at 21°: Juanita (locality); 3250 m at 345°: La Aurorita (locality); 3390 m at 166°: El Tumbadero (settlement); 3960 m at 86°: La Delicia (hamlet); 4090 m at 116°: Regalito (settlement); 4310 m at 98°: Santana (locality); 4310 m at 98°: Sitio Cubano (locality); 4380 m at 225°: El Canet (settlement); 4710 m at 260°: San Martín (hamlet).

Centella Cave: distances

5060 m at 350°: Playa Bacalao; 5810 m at 219°: Guanábana; 6100 m at 282°: Playa Buey Vaca; 4300 m at 71°: Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport ; 10210 m at 288°: Port of Matanzas (port); 38350 m at 66°: Marina Gaviota Varadero (marina).

Protected: 34510 m at 60°: Manglares; 36140 m at 60°: Manglares; 38010 m at 59°: Varahicacos.

Centella Cave: close by

7750 m at 19°: Club de Buceo Laguna de Maya (reef); 10460 m at 284°: Base de Pesca Deportiva "Luis Salgado" (fishing); 15030 m at 49°: Base de pesca (fishing); 15300 m at 46°: El Cayuelo (cay); 16650 m at 318°: Cueva de la Pluma (site); 24660 m at 60°: Cayo de la Siguapa (cay).

Centella Cave: on and around

Within 15 km: 102 guest houses & hostels, 55 stores & supermarkets, 52 schools, 43 attractions, 36 factories & works, 24 government & embassies, 23 theatres & arts, 23 clinics & polyclinics, 19 places of worship, 18 garages & car services.

2660 m at 307°: Tropicana Matanzas (theatres & arts); 2830 m at 312°: Punto náutico y baile de aborígenes (attractions); 2860 m at 309°: Campismo Canimar Abajo (camp sites); 3000 m at 162°: La arboleda (attractions); 3080 m at 308°: Monumento a Antonio Guiteras y Carlos Aponte (historic & heritage); 3080 m at 308°: Antonio Guiteras (attractions); 3080 m at 308°: Carlos Aponte (attractions); 3220 m at 162°: Campismo Río Canimar (camp sites); 3240 m at 238°: Quarry (mines & quarries); 3270 m at 157°: Ruinas del Tumbadero (attractions); 3620 m at 284°: ApartaHotel Gelpi (guest houses & hostels); 4440 m at 103°: casa de rentas (guest houses & hostels); 5010 m at 293°: Miguel house (guest houses & hostels).

Centella Cave: marine life records

210 records of 104 species within 10 km, 1839 to 2023: 113 fish, 36 molluscs, 20 corals, 19 seabirds and shorebirds, 6 seagrass and algae, 6 marine mammals, 3 sharks and rays, 3 echinoderms, 2 crustaceans, 2 sponges. That is 66.8 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Pelecanus occidentalis, 13 (seabirds and shorebirds); Acanthurus coeruleus, 10 (fish); Abudefduf saxatilis, 9 (fish); Dajaus monticola, 6 (fish); Gastropoda, 6 (molluscs); Cocos nucifera, 6 (seagrass and algae); Ocyurus chrysurus, 5 (fish); Thalassoma bifasciatum, 5 (fish); Microspathodon chrysurus, 5 (fish); Lophogobius cyprinoides, 5 (fish); Gobionellus oceanicus, 4 (fish); Acropora cervicornis, 4 (corals).

Months with records, marine mammals: Jan 2, Aug 1, Sep 2.

Records show where people have surveyed, not how many animals there are.

Centella Cave: notes

Leave any worked stone, shell or bone where it lies.

Getting to Centella Cave

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Punta Maya stands about 8.1 km away.