Cayo del Muerto

Cayo del Muerto: coast and water

840 m at 225°: Bajo Tres Patas (shoal); 1200 m at 116°: Punta Los Almácigos (point); 1270 m at 118°: Punta Condesa (point); 1270 m at 118°: Punta Biajaiba (point); 1690 m at 8°: Playa Carenero (beach); 1690 m at 42°: Estero Santa Teresa (estuary); 1690 m at 42°: Ensenada de Pancho Taso (cove); 1850 m at 354°: Boca de Bahía Honda (inlet); 1980 m at 294°: Punta Corojal (point); 2010 m at 135°: Punta San Diego (point); 2150 m at 273°: Punta San Ignacio (point); 2320 m at 270°: Punta Júcaro (point); 2360 m at 255°: Pasa de la Caoba (channel); 2360 m at 255°: Pasa San Ignacio (channel); 2360 m at 255°: Estero Corojal (estuary); 2520 m at 193°: Bajo Lancha (shoal).

Cayo del Muerto: islands

2370 m at 185°: Cayo El Chivo (island); 2380 m at 273°: Cayo Corojal (islet); 3380 m at 205°: Cayo Pájaro (island); 6460 m at 314°: Cayuelo La Poza (island).

Cayo del Muerto: inland

2610 m at 299°: La Caoba (locality); 3680 m at 301°: Corojalito (settlement); 3710 m at 260°: Vaquería La Caoba (ranch); 3790 m at 190°: Muelle Punta de Piedra (settlement); 4090 m at 85°: Granja Agropecuaria Lidia Doce (ranch); 4570 m at 239°: Patricio Lumumba (settlement); 5320 m at 105°: San Ignacio (settlement); 5340 m at 92°: Blanca Arena (settlement); 5580 m at 266°: Vaquería Comandante Número Dos (ranch); 5640 m at 52°: Las Cuevas (locality); 5770 m at 283°: Mercedita (settlement); 5870 m at 223°: Gerardo Pastora (locality).

Cayo del Muerto: distances

5450 m at 183°: Bahía Honda; 15960 m at 268°: Playa Morrillo; 17850 m at 243°: Arroyo de Piedra; 77070 m at 87°: José Martí International Airport ; 42250 m at 85°: Port of Mariel (port); 69050 m at 77°: Marina Hemingway (marina).

Protected: 21540 m at 119°: Reserva de la Biosfera Sierra del Rosario; 35150 m at 225°: Mil Cumbres.

Cayo del Muerto: close by

2370 m at 185°: Cayo El Chivo (cay); 2380 m at 273°: Cayo Corojal (cay); 3390 m at 205°: Cayo Pájaro (cay); 4670 m at 331°: Cabeza Guano de Genaro (reef); 4670 m at 331°: Cabezo Guano de Genaro (reef); 5950 m at 326°: Cabezo del Jorobado (reef); 6460 m at 314°: Cayuelo La Poza (cay); 14970 m at 269°: Cayo Piedra del Medio (cay); 15940 m at 264°: Base de Pesca Deportiva El Morrillo (fishing); 16000 m at 81°: Bajo de Cayo Ahogado (reef); 16330 m at 77°: Cayo Negrito (cay); 19420 m at 69°: Cayuelo Alonso (cay).

Cayo del Muerto: on and around

Within 15 km: 6 coral reefs, 4 guest houses & hostels, 3 factories & works, 3 sugar mills & refineries, 2 historic & heritage, 2 places of worship, 2 fuel stations, 2 urban parks & plazas, 2 government & embassies, 2 hospitals.

2950 m at 204°: Vista al Mar (guest houses & hostels); 2980 m at 16°: Fuerte de San Fernando (historic & heritage); 5470 m at 186°: Casa Gualberto y Deysi (guest houses & hostels); 5710 m at 169°: Rodeo (stadiums & sport); 5710 m at 182°: Parque José Martí (urban parks & plazas); 5770 m at 181°: Parque de las Madres (urban parks & plazas); 5770 m at 180°: Museo municipal (museums); 5780 m at 175°: Villa Tita (guest houses & hostels); 11140 m at 179°: Quarry (mines & quarries); 13360 m at 271°: Campismo La Altura (camp sites); 14020 m at 175°: Loma Caldoso (peaks & volcanoes); 14670 m at 70°: Campismo San Pedro (camp sites); 14820 m at 187°: Loma El Chivo🐐 (peaks & volcanoes).

Cayo del Muerto: marine life records

1444 records of 134 species within 10 km, 1877 to 2003: 1290 other, 67 crustaceans, 33 corals, 30 molluscs, 10 echinoderms, 9 fish, 3 sponges, 2 marine mammals. That is 459.6 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Ostracoda, 48 (other); Undinula vulgaris, 45 (other); Mecynocera gracilis, 40 (other); Calanoida, 40 (other); Oncaea media, 40 (other); Oncaea venusta venella, 40 (other); Chaetognatha, 40 (other); Clausocalanus furcatus, 40 (other); Nannocalanus minor, 40 (other); Farranula gracilis, 35 (other); Oncaea, 35 (other); Calocalanus pavoninus, 35 (other).

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

Cayo del Muerto: notes

Take your rubbish away and keep off the mangrove.

Getting to Cayo del Muerto

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Punta del Morillo stands about 3.0 km away.
• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro de Punta Gobernadora stands about 7.1 km away.