Cayo Chubasco

Cayo Chubasco: coast and water

830 m at 112°: Pasa de Tumba la Olla (channel); 3560 m at 104°: Puerto Sagua La Grande (bay); 4450 m at 5°: Boca El Serón (channel); 4490 m at 36°: Canalizo Vianero (channel); 5730 m at 168°: Punta Uvero (point); 8290 m at 333°: Boca Marillani (channel); 8420 m at 294°: Punta Sotavento (point); 8740 m at 158°: Playa Piñón (beach).

Cayo Chubasco: islands

1640 m at 45°: Cayos Tumba la Olla (island group); 4620 m at 342°: Cayo Hachuela (island); 4860 m at 64°: Cayuelos Fondos de Piedra Alta (island group); 5960 m at 140°: Cayo Róbalo (island); 6380 m at 77°: Cayo Los Quitasoles (island); 6990 m at 344°: Cayo Mariposa (island); 7330 m at 347°: Cayo Maravillas (island); 9370 m at 82°: Cayo Culebra (island); 10730 m at 62°: Cayos Jutías (island group); 13290 m at 327°: Cayo Matahambre (island); 13630 m at 324°: Cayo Iguana (island); 14750 m at 335°: Cayo del Cristo (island).

Cayo Chubasco: inland

5930 m at 167°: Playa Uvero (settlement); 7290 m at 288°: Sagua la Grande (stream); 8560 m at 330°: Las Miravillas (settlement); 8990 m at 158°: Playa Piñón (settlement); 9970 m at 256°: Laguna del Dorado (pond); 11190 m at 179°: Alejandrina (hamlet).

Cayo Chubasco: distances

6040 m at 222°: Playa Colorado; 7680 m at 289°: Isabela de Sagua; 8760 m at 158°: Playa Piñón; 47170 m at 180°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 99400 m at 211°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 100980 m at 211°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 23010 m at 244°: Mogotes de Jumagua.

Cayo Chubasco: close by

1160 m at 319°: Nikolis M (reef); 1490 m at 68°: Cayo Tumba la Olla (cay); 1650 m at 45°: Cayos Tumba la Olla (island group); 1870 m at 189°: Cayos de la Enfermería (island group); 4620 m at 341°: Cayo Hachuela (cay); 4730 m at 43°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 4860 m at 64°: Cayuelos Fondos de Piedra Alta (island group); 5960 m at 140°: Cayo Róbalo (cay); 6340 m at 89°: Cayos de Punta Inglés (island group); 6380 m at 77°: Cayo Los Quitasoles (cay); 6990 m at 344°: Cayo Mariposa (cay); 7320 m at 295°: Vista al Mar (fishing).

Cayo Chubasco: on and around

Within 15 km: 6 salt works, 2 factories & works, 1 cuban cuisine & lechón, 1 marinas, 1 historic & heritage, 1 stations & terminals, 1 schools, 1 clinics & polyclinics.

7390 m at 294°: Paladar la Estrella (cuban cuisine & lechón); 7510 m at 293°: Marinas & Náutica Marlin Isabela (marinas); 7680 m at 292°: La Casona (historic & heritage); 7790 m at 288°: Concha (Isabela) (stations & terminals).

Cayo Chubasco: marine life records

133 records of 72 species within 10 km, 1931 to 2024: 99 fish, 23 crustaceans, 5 other, 3 molluscs, 1 sharks and rays, 1 echinoderms, 1 marine mammals. That is 42.3 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Sphyraena barracuda, 8 (fish); Dynamenella perforata, 7 (crustaceans); Gerres cinereus, 7 (fish); Gammaridea, 5 (crustaceans); Sphoeroides testudineus, 5 (fish); Strongylura notata, 5 (fish); Archosargus rhomboidalis, 4 (fish); Lutjanus analis, 4 (fish); Anchoa hepsetus, 3 (fish); Acanthostracion quadricornis, 3 (fish); Hemiramphus brasiliensis, 3 (fish); Lactophrys trigonus, 3 (fish).

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

Cayo Chubasco: notes

Land only where a guide allows it.

Getting to Cayo Chubasco

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Cristo stands about 14 km away.