Cayo de la Cruz

Cayo de la Cruz: coast and water

1140 m at 194°: Ensenada del Jobabo (cove); 4390 m at 357°: Cayo del Cristo Lighthouse (lighthouse); 4850 m at 129°: Boca de Cañate (channel); 4860 m at 34°: Cabezos de Maravillas (reef); 5200 m at 325°: Ensenada de la Glorieta (inlet); 5200 m at 328°: Ensenada de la Glorita (cove); 5530 m at 78°: Cabezo de Canaete (reef); 6090 m at 210°: Punta Sotavento (point).

Cayo de la Cruz: islands

3090 m at 199°: Cayo Palomo (island); 3410 m at 126°: Cayo Mariposa (island); 3410 m at 118°: Cayo Maravillas (island); 4020 m at 305°: Cayo Iguana (island); 4880 m at 341°: Cayo del Cristo (island); 7470 m at 332°: Cayuelo del Cristo (island); 9910 m at 152°: Cayo Chubasco (island); 10850 m at 305°: Cayo Esquivel del Sur (island); 11460 m at 157°: Cayos de la Enfermería (island group); 13160 m at 124°: Cayo Los Quitasoles (island); 14340 m at 281°: Cayo Rancho del Cojo (island); 14630 m at 105°: Cayos Jutías (island group).

Cayo de la Cruz: inland

1370 m at 161°: Las Miravillas (settlement); 6730 m at 202°: Isabela de Sagua (settlement); 6920 m at 199°: Sagua la Grande (stream); 9910 m at 353°: Guaicanamar (locality); 13960 m at 207°: Júcaro (locality); 14820 m at 213°: Hacienda Ganadera (hamlet).

Cayo de la Cruz: distances

6690 m at 202°: Isabela de Sagua; 8290 m at 214°: Playa de Punta Gorda; 13230 m at 177°: Playa Colorado; 56090 m at 175°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 104800 m at 206°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 106350 m at 207°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 24710 m at 220°: Mogotes de Jumagua.

Cayo de la Cruz: close by

2560 m at 322°: Cayo Tunas (cay); 3090 m at 198°: Cayo Palomo (cay); 3210 m at 319°: Cayo Bicho (cay); 3380 m at 202°: Cayo Paloma (cay); 3410 m at 118°: Cayo Maravillas (cay); 3410 m at 126°: Cayo Mariposa (cay); 3500 m at 314°: Cayo Matahambre (cay); 4020 m at 306°: Cayo Iguana (cay); 4410 m at 243°: Cayo Levisa (cay); 4860 m at 34°: Cabezos de Maravillas (reef); 4870 m at 341°: Cayo del Cristo (cay); 5410 m at 143°: Cayo Hachuela (cay).

Cayo de la Cruz: 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.

6090 m at 200°: Paladar la Estrella (cuban cuisine & lechón); 6170 m at 201°: Marinas & Náutica Marlin Isabela (marinas); 6410 m at 203°: La Casona (historic & heritage); 6830 m at 203°: Concha (Isabela) (stations & terminals).

Cayo de la Cruz: marine life records

189 records of 83 species within 10 km, 1931 to 2024: 144 fish, 32 crustaceans, 5 other, 3 sharks and rays, 3 molluscs, 1 echinoderms, 1 marine mammals. That is 60.2 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Gammaridea, 10 (crustaceans); Strongylura notata, 9 (fish); Dynamenella perforata, 8 (crustaceans); Lophogobius cyprinoides, 8 (fish); Gerres cinereus, 7 (fish); Limia vittata, 6 (fish); Gambusia puncticulata, 6 (fish); Sphyraena barracuda, 5 (fish); Ctenogobius boleosoma, 5 (fish); Cyprinodon variegatus, 4 (fish); Archosargus rhomboidalis, 4 (fish); Erotelis smaragdus, 4 (fish).

Months with records, sharks and rays: Apr 3.

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

Cayo de la Cruz: notes

Land only where a guide allows it.

Getting to Cayo de la Cruz

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Cristo stands about 4.4 km away.