Cayos Carnero

Cayos Carnero: coast and water

5220 m at 214°: Canal Cayo Largo (channel); 7580 m at 198°: Punta Infierno (point); 7830 m at 317°: Laguna Los Mosquitos (lagoon); 7900 m at 310°: Laguna Cañones (lagoon); 8100 m at 82°: Punta San Juan (point); 9350 m at 284°: Pasa Mate de Adentro (channel); 11140 m at 247°: Canal Pasa Honda (channel); 11970 m at 141°: Canal de Media Luna (channel).

Cayos Carnero: islands

860 m at 8°: Cayo Carenero (islet); 2810 m at 210°: Cayo Largo de Mordazo (island); 3190 m at 279°: Cayos Pinipiniche (island group); 9220 m at 289°: Cayos Mate Adentro (island group); 9540 m at 123°: Cayo Atravesado (island); 10620 m at 251°: Cayos Pasa Honda (island group); 10670 m at 248°: Cayos Mate (island group); 10920 m at 122°: Cayo la Playa (island); 12020 m at 297°: Cayo Puga (island); 12670 m at 95°: Cayo Manopla (island); 13990 m at 98°: Cayos de Manopla (island group); 14960 m at 93°: Cayo Navío (island).

Cayos Carnero: inland

1850 m at 0°: Litoral Santa Cruz (railway station); 5560 m at 0°: Las Minas (locality); 5820 m at 17°: Santa Clara (hamlet); 7980 m at 6°: Cambute (settlement); 8180 m at 25°: La Esperanza (locality); 9430 m at 11°: Vista Hermosa (locality).

Cayos Carnero: distances

3170 m at 3°: Santa Cruz del Sur; 3240 m at 52°: Playa Bonita; 41330 m at 88°: Guayabal; 83410 m at 11°: Ignacio Agramonte International Airport ; 123200 m at 38°: Port of Nuevitas (port); 222350 m at 342°: Marina Marlin Cayo Guillermo (marina).

Cayos Carnero: close by

860 m at 8°: Cayo Carenero (cay); 2390 m at 36°: Antiguo Combinado Pesquero (fishing); 2600 m at 62°: Cayo Muerto (cay); 2810 m at 210°: Cayo Largo de Mordazo (cay); 2910 m at 39°: Empresa Pesquera Industrial EPISUR, Planta de Camaronicultura (fishing); 3180 m at 279°: Cayos Pinipiniche (island group); 4880 m at 191°: Cayería la Sierra (island group); 5220 m at 32°: Camaronicultura (fishing); 7320 m at 50°: Camaronicultura (fishing); 7610 m at 137°: Cayos de Sevilla (island group); 8860 m at 102°: Cayos San Juan (island group); 8860 m at 258°: Jardines y Jardinillos de la Reina (island group).

Cayos Carnero: on and around

Within 15 km: 12 schools, 11 stores & supermarkets, 7 places of worship, 6 clinics & polyclinics, 6 government & embassies, 6 trails & viewpoints, 4 factories & works, 3 sugar mills & refineries, 3 banks & exchange, 3 historic & heritage.

3520 m at 4°: Museo Municipal (museums); 3570 m at 7°: Cine Santa Cruz del Sur (theatres & arts); 3600 m at 7°: Monumento (historic & heritage); 3620 m at 14°: Cuadro de Pelota (stadiums & sport); 3640 m at 5°: Paladar El Faro (cuban cuisine & lechón); 4210 m at 358°: Santa Cruz del Sur (stations & terminals); 4220 m at 359°: Terminal Santa Cruz del Sur (stations & terminals); 5330 m at 1°: Santa Cruz del Sur (1km) (trails & viewpoints); 5650 m at 1°: Vertientes (80km) (trails & viewpoints); 5950 m at 0°: Camagüey (80km) (trails & viewpoints).

Cayos Carnero: marine life records

246 records of 41 species within 15 km, 2001 to 2001: 140 corals, 105 fish, 1 molluscs. That is 34.8 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Millepora alcicornis, 79 (corals); Haemulon flavolineatum, 16 (fish); Porites porites, 13 (corals); Porites astreoides, 11 (corals); Pseudodiploria strigosa, 9 (corals); Siderastrea siderea, 8 (corals); Haemulon sciurus, 8 (fish); Chaetodon capistratus, 7 (fish); Acropora palmata, 7 (corals); Acanthurus coeruleus, 7 (fish); Acanthurus bahianus, 7 (fish); Haemulon plumierii, 6 (fish).

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

Cayos Carnero: notes

The pin is one reference point of a larger group.

Getting to Cayos Carnero

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro de Santa Cruz del Sur stands about 2.9 km away.