Cayos de las Doce Leguas

Cayos de las Doce Leguas: coast and water

1840 m at 218°: Punta Bayameses (point); 2530 m at 137°: Boca Fraile (channel); 3170 m at 157°: Punta Fraile (point); 5270 m at 144°: Estero Las Auras (estuary); 17560 m at 354°: Placer de Caballones (shoal); 18330 m at 304°: Punta de Boca Grande (point); 22230 m at 120°: Ensenada Las Anclitas por el Norte (cove); 25620 m at 302°: Playa Alcatraz (beach); 26550 m at 62°: Bajo Manuel Gómez (shoal); 35420 m at 13°: Bajo Nordeste Paloma (shoal); 36340 m at 325°: Bajo Los Corrales (shoal); 37270 m at 351°: Canal de Piedras (channel); 37950 m at 108°: Canal de Cayo Largo (channel); 39450 m at 20°: Canal Paloma (channel); 39660 m at 75°: Bajo Mosquito (shoal); 39860 m at 126°: Punta Las Crucecitas (point).

Cayos de las Doce Leguas: islands

4920 m at 308°: Cayo Grande (island); 16350 m at 66°: Cayo Cargado (island); 25300 m at 128°: Cayo Miraflores (island); 25980 m at 303°: Cayo Alcatraz (island); 27420 m at 77°: Cayo Bergantines (island group); 27610 m at 301°: Cayo Alcatracito (island); 29310 m at 125°: Cayo Boca de Piedra Chiquita (island); 30340 m at 301°: Cayo Casimba (islet); 31300 m at 122°: Cayo Boca de la Piedra de Piloto (island); 31390 m at 337°: Cayuelo de Rabihorcado (island); 32330 m at 308°: Cayos Cinco Balas (island group); 34080 m at 125°: Cayo Piedra Grande (island); 34200 m at 85°: Cayo Bonito (island); 41410 m at 302°: Cayo Bretón (island); 46620 m at 109°: Cayo Gordo (island); 48310 m at 126°: Cayos Los Indios (island group); 48650 m at 121°: Cayo Mangle Prieto (island); 50640 m at 113°: Cayo Antoncito (island); 51710 m at 115°: Cayo Felipe (island); 53350 m at 116°: Cayo Las Cruces (island); 53390 m at 123°: Cayos Los Carabineros (island group); 55150 m at 123°: Cayo Bartolo (island); 55390 m at 122°: Cayo Carabinero (island); 59760 m at 28°: Cayo Pájaro (island).

Cayos de las Doce Leguas: distances

76410 m at 44°: Playa Santa María; 95290 m at 350°: La Sierpe; 96090 m at 18°: Venezuela; 135460 m at 316°: Alberto Delgado Airport ; 196210 m at 315°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 132380 m at 315°: Marina Trinidad (Casilda) (marina).

Protected: 20350 m at 89°: Parque Nacional Jardines de la Reina.

Cayos de las Doce Leguas: close by

4920 m at 308°: Cayo Grande (cay); 4990 m at 130°: Cayo Caballones (cay); 9600 m at 132°: Cayo Mangle Alto (cay); 12720 m at 115°: Jardines de la Reina (island group); 12720 m at 115°: Jardines de la Reina (reef); 12720 m at 115°: Jardines de la Reina (fishing); 16350 m at 66°: Cayo Cargado (cay); 21180 m at 128°: Cayo Anclitas (island group); 22680 m at 38°: Cayo Cuervo (cay); 22810 m at 130°: Cayos Anclitas (cay).

Cayos de las Doce Leguas: on and around

Within 15 km: 1 coral reefs.

.

Cayos de las Doce Leguas: marine life records

3101 records of 262 species within 15 km, 1937 to 2026: 1660 fish, 1176 corals, 169 sponges, 27 sharks and rays, 23 echinoderms, 15 molluscs, 12 seabirds and shorebirds, 11 crustaceans, 6 other, 1 seagrass and algae, 1 turtles. That is 438.7 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Acropora palmata, 232 (corals); Siderastrea siderea, 201 (corals); Acanthurus coeruleus, 136 (fish); Sparisoma viride, 119 (fish); Millepora complanata, 103 (corals); Agaricia agaricites, 91 (corals); Porites astreoides, 89 (corals); Orbicella faveolata, 86 (corals); Scarus iseri, 83 (fish); Acanthurus bahianus, 81 (fish); Microspathodon chrysurus, 78 (fish); Orbicella annularis, 75 (corals).

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

Cayos de las Doce Leguas: notes

The pin is one reference point of a larger group.