Los Cayuelos

Los Cayuelos: coast and water

840 m at 182°: Estero Majagua (cove); 3680 m at 63°: Punta Francés (point); 4980 m at 233°: Punta Santa Lucía (point); 5910 m at 318°: Bajo Corona del Tingo (shoal); 6790 m at 68°: Estero Manatí (bay); 7410 m at 275°: Pasa Honda (channel); 7470 m at 261°: Fondeadero El Quebrado (anchorage); 7490 m at 229°: Punta Garza (point).

Los Cayuelos: islands

6960 m at 65°: Cayos Boquerones (island group); 7490 m at 229°: Cayos de Santa Lucía (island group); 7490 m at 229°: Cayos La Garza (island group); 9160 m at 263°: Cayo Restinga del Palo (island); 12510 m at 260°: Cayo Jutías (island); 13390 m at 62°: Cayo Largo (island); 13410 m at 63°: Cayo Prieto (island); 14420 m at 52°: Cayo Inés de Soto (island).

Los Cayuelos: inland

4760 m at 217°: Río Maguriges (stream); 7810 m at 210°: Santa Lucia (airfield); 7890 m at 206°: Martín Llera (hamlet); 7970 m at 128°: Río Bejuquera (stream); 8400 m at 72°: Río Duque (stream); 8800 m at 220°: Las Yaguas (hamlet).

Los Cayuelos: distances

9170 m at 216°: Santa Lucía; 16590 m at 194°: Minas de Matahambre; 19030 m at 75°: La Esperanza; 152680 m at 130°: Rafael Cabrera Airport ; 122530 m at 76°: Port of Mariel (port); 143340 m at 228°: Marina Gaviota Cabo de San Antonio (marina).

Protected: 20180 m at 141°: Parque Nacional Viñales.

Los Cayuelos: close by

6920 m at 314°: Cabezo El Tingo (reef); 6960 m at 65°: Cayos Boquerones (island group); 7480 m at 229°: Cayos de Santa Lucía (island group); 7480 m at 229°: Cayos La Garza (island group); 7800 m at 289°: Arrecifes de Los Colorados (reef); 9160 m at 263°: Cayo Restinga del Palo (cay); 9160 m at 263°: Médano de Jutías (reef); 9610 m at 268°: Cayo Médano (cay); 12520 m at 260°: Cayo Jutías (cay); 13390 m at 63°: Cayo Largo (cay); 13410 m at 63°: Cayo Prieto (cay); 14420 m at 52°: Cayo Inés de Soto (cay).

Los Cayuelos: on and around

Within 15 km: 16 guest houses & hostels, 7 stores & supermarkets, 7 factories & works, 5 schools, 4 urban parks & plazas, 4 mines & quarries, 2 places of worship, 2 garages & car services, 2 marinas, 1 clinics & polyclinics.

7340 m at 219°: El Ranchón (guest houses & hostels); 7880 m at 213°: Casa Mariuska (guest houses & hostels); 7900 m at 221°: Balcon al Mar (guest houses & hostels); 8170 m at 212°: La Sabana (theatres & arts); 8300 m at 223°: Santa Lucia (marinas); 8310 m at 224°: Puerto Santa Lucía (marinas); 8400 m at 212°: Paladar Rosymar (cuban cuisine & lechón); 8420 m at 223°: Parque de Santa Lucía (urban parks & plazas); 8430 m at 223°: Teminal Santa Lucia (stations & terminals); 8530 m at 222°: Área de Festejo (urban parks & plazas); 8720 m at 221°: José Martí (urban parks & plazas); 9260 m at 220°: Campo de Fútbol (stadiums & sport); 9390 m at 224°: La Ceniza (mines & quarries).

Los Cayuelos: marine life records

50 records of 34 species within 15 km, 1914 to 2023: 16 fish, 9 seabirds and shorebirds, 6 seagrass and algae, 6 marine mammals, 5 corals, 4 crustaceans, 3 echinoderms, 1 molluscs. That is 7.1 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Trichechus manatus, 6 (marine mammals); Sterna maxima, 4 (seabirds and shorebirds); Ocyurus chrysurus, 2 (fish); Cocos nucifera, 2 (seagrass and algae); Coenobita clypeatus, 2 (crustaceans); Lytechinus variegatus, 2 (echinoderms); Ocypode quadrata, 2 (crustaceans); Abudefduf saxatilis, 2 (fish); Acyrtops beryllinus, 2 (fish); Dactyloscopus poeyi, 2 (fish); Calidris minutilla, 1 (seabirds and shorebirds); Conocarpus erectus, 1 (seagrass and algae).

Months with records, marine mammals: Jan 3.

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

Los Cayuelos: notes

Ask an operator which cays can be reached.

Getting to Los Cayuelos

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro de Cayo Jutías stands about 11 km away.
• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro de Cayo Jutías 2 stands about 11 km away.