Cayo Hachuela

Cayo Hachuela: coast and water

3790 m at 322°: Boca Marillani (channel); 5200 m at 155°: Pasa de Tumba la Olla (channel); 6290 m at 261°: Punta Sotavento (point); 6800 m at 204°: Bahía Colorada (cove); 7180 m at 137°: Puerto Sagua La Grande (bay); 7530 m at 205°: Punta Cayama (point); 8280 m at 252°: Playa de Punta Gorda (beach); 8380 m at 357°: Cabezos de Maravillas (reef).

Cayo Hachuela: islands

2380 m at 348°: Cayo Mariposa (island); 2760 m at 356°: Cayo Maravillas (island); 4620 m at 161°: Cayo Chubasco (island); 4770 m at 101°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 4770 m at 143°: Cayo Tumba la Olla (island); 6160 m at 263°: Cayo Mendoza (island); 9320 m at 316°: Cayo Iguana (island); 10410 m at 150°: Cayo Róbalo (island); 10960 m at 87°: Cayos Jutías (island group); 11170 m at 106°: Cayo Culebra (island); 12760 m at 304°: Cayos Redondos (island group); 14720 m at 81°: Cayuelos de Jutías (island group).

Cayo Hachuela: inland

6030 m at 252°: Isabela de Sagua (settlement); 6230 m at 264°: Estación Concha (railway station); 11390 m at 236°: El Dorado (settlement); 12590 m at 201°: Pastora de Cartaya (locality); 13900 m at 192°: Yániz (hamlet); 14860 m at 342°: Guaicanamar (locality).

Cayo Hachuela: distances

6060 m at 252°: Isabela de Sagua; 8280 m at 252°: Playa de Punta Gorda; 9230 m at 196°: Playa Colorado; 51570 m at 179°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 102450 m at 209°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 104030 m at 209°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 24060 m at 233°: Mogotes de Jumagua.

Cayo Hachuela: close by

2380 m at 348°: Cayo Mariposa (cay); 2760 m at 356°: Cayo Maravillas (cay); 3580 m at 169°: Nikolis M (reef); 4150 m at 141°: Cayos Tumba la Olla (island group); 4430 m at 289°: Cayo Palomo (cay); 4620 m at 161°: Cayo Chubasco (cay); 4640 m at 285°: Cayo Paloma (cay); 4770 m at 101°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 4780 m at 143°: Cayo Tumba la Olla (cay); 5340 m at 256°: Vista al Mar (fishing); 5410 m at 323°: Cayo de la Cruz (cay); 5940 m at 21°: Cabezo de Canaete (reef).

Cayo Hachuela: 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.

5460 m at 255°: Paladar la Estrella (cuban cuisine & lechón); 5620 m at 255°: Marinas & Náutica Marlin Isabela (marinas); 5890 m at 255°: La Casona (historic & heritage); 6230 m at 252°: Concha (Isabela) (stations & terminals).

Cayo Hachuela: marine life records

107 records of 60 species within 10 km, 1931 to 2024: 73 fish, 23 crustaceans, 5 other, 3 molluscs, 1 sharks and rays, 1 echinoderms, 1 marine mammals. That is 34.1 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Sphyraena barracuda, 7 (fish); Dynamenella perforata, 7 (crustaceans); Gerres cinereus, 7 (fish); Gammaridea, 5 (crustaceans); Archosargus rhomboidalis, 4 (fish); Strongylura notata, 4 (fish); Lutjanus analis, 4 (fish); Sphoeroides testudineus, 3 (fish); Syngnathus, 2 (fish); Anchoa hepsetus, 2 (fish); Acanthostracion quadricornis, 2 (fish); Exosphaeroma productatelson, 2 (crustaceans).

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

Cayo Hachuela: notes

Land only where a guide allows it.

Getting to Cayo Hachuela

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Cristo stands about 9.4 km away.