Cayo Iguana

Cayo Iguana: coast and water

3200 m at 277°: Punta La Gata (point); 3600 m at 6°: Punta Chernas (point); 4550 m at 139°: Ensenada del Jobabo (cove); 5750 m at 318°: Punta La Aguada (point); 6810 m at 224°: Bahía Sagua la Grande (bay); 6810 m at 288°: Punta de Pargo (point); 7170 m at 317°: Playa El Roteño (beach); 7340 m at 203°: Punta Gorda (point).

Cayo Iguana: islands

4130 m at 276°: Cayos Redondos (island group); 4370 m at 189°: Cayo Levisa (island); 5740 m at 156°: Cayo Palomo (island); 7420 m at 126°: Cayo Mariposa (island); 10810 m at 272°: Cayo Rancho del Cojo (island); 12370 m at 246°: Cayo Bamba (island); 13260 m at 309°: Cayuelo de Gandón (island); 13450 m at 270°: Cayo Ocho Arrobas (island); 13510 m at 124°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 13630 m at 144°: Cayo Chubasco (island); 13980 m at 307°: Cayos Gandón (island group); 14060 m at 138°: Cayo Tumba la Olla (island).

Cayo Iguana: inland

5200 m at 134°: Las Miravillas (settlement); 7760 m at 15°: Guaicanamar (locality); 8620 m at 175°: Isabela de Sagua (settlement); 8930 m at 174°: Sagua la Grande (stream); 11120 m at 187°: Fortuna (hamlet); 13380 m at 193°: El Dorado (settlement).

Cayo Iguana: distances

8550 m at 175°: Isabela de Sagua; 9290 m at 189°: Playa de Punta Gorda; 16030 m at 166°: Playa Colorado; 58760 m at 172°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 105510 m at 204°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 107040 m at 205°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 24710 m at 211°: Mogotes de Jumagua.

Cayo Iguana: close by

740 m at 83°: Cayo Matahambre (cay); 1160 m at 86°: Cayo Bicho (cay); 1720 m at 101°: Cayo Tunas (cay); 2810 m at 36°: Cayo del Cristo (cay); 4020 m at 126°: Cayo de la Cruz (cay); 4130 m at 276°: Cayos Redondos (island group); 4240 m at 356°: Cayuelo del Cristo (cay); 4370 m at 189°: Cayo Levisa (cay); 5740 m at 156°: Cayo Palomo (cay); 5830 m at 306°: Cayo Esquivel (cay); 5830 m at 160°: Cayo Paloma (cay); 6230 m at 74°: Cabezos de Maravillas (reef).

Cayo Iguana: 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.

8150 m at 171°: Paladar la Estrella (cuban cuisine & lechón); 8170 m at 173°: Marinas & Náutica Marlin Isabela (marinas); 8290 m at 174°: La Casona (historic & heritage); 8630 m at 176°: Concha (Isabela) (stations & terminals).

Cayo Iguana: marine life records

195 records of 94 species within 10 km, 1931 to 2024: 156 fish, 25 crustaceans, 5 other, 4 sharks and rays, 3 molluscs, 1 echinoderms, 1 marine mammals. That is 62.1 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Gammaridea, 9 (crustaceans); Strongylura notata, 9 (fish); Lophogobius cyprinoides, 8 (fish); Gerres cinereus, 7 (fish); Dynamenella perforata, 6 (crustaceans); 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, Dec 1.

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

Cayo Iguana: notes

Take your rubbish away and keep off the mangrove.

Getting to Cayo Iguana

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Cristo stands about 3.7 km away.