Cayo La Boca

Cayo La Boca: coast and water

980 m at 307°: Punta Fontiche (point); 1300 m at 63°: Estero del Infierno (marsh); 1680 m at 289°: Punta Ladrillo (point); 2820 m at 38°: Ensenada Carenero (bay); 3770 m at 39°: Punta Tolete (point); 4540 m at 321°: Laguna de las Tunas (lagoon); 4850 m at 62°: Laguna Redonda (lagoon); 5010 m at 306°: Ensenada de las Tunas (bay); 5080 m at 14°: Laguna de Polizones (lagoon); 5360 m at 87°: Playa Bonita (beach); 6120 m at 73°: Laguna Las Caobas (lagoon); 7260 m at 99°: Punta Las Cruces (point); 9110 m at 103°: Punta del Playazo (point); 10250 m at 102°: Estero del Tolete (inlet); 13790 m at 52°: Antigua Laguna Valle (marsh); 14750 m at 304°: Punta Ocujes (point).

Cayo La Boca: islands

7190 m at 260°: Cayo Blanco de Zaza (island).

Cayo La Boca: inland

2440 m at 313°: El Mégano (settlement); 4380 m at 14°: Terrenos Bajos (locality); 6170 m at 355°: Los Jipios (locality); 8010 m at 356°: Costa Rica (locality); 8820 m at 46°: Siete de Noviembre (sugar mill); 9480 m at 215°: Sabana de Ciego Banao (settlement); 9920 m at 7°: Estación Tayabacoa (railway station); 9950 m at 352°: Sabana de la Mar (locality); 10550 m at 28°: Mayabuna (stream); 10680 m at 358°: Cuatro Caminos (settlement); 10730 m at 338°: Cagüeira (settlement); 11050 m at 39°: Arroyo Guasimal (stream).

Cayo La Boca: distances

15760 m at 31°: Guasimal; 29440 m at 357°: El Cachual; 30460 m at 293°: Playa Las Majaguas; 52330 m at 292°: Alberto Delgado Airport ; 111560 m at 303°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 50640 m at 288°: Marina Trinidad (Casilda) (marina).

Protected: 30880 m at 342°: Reserva Ecológica Lomas de Banao.

Cayo La Boca: close by

3460 m at 314°: Zaza (fishing); 7200 m at 260°: Cayo Blanco de Zaza (cay); 7440 m at 351°: Camaronera CultiZaza (fishing); 17590 m at 196°: Cayo Chiquito (cay); 17940 m at 196°: Cayo Zaza de Afuera (cay).

Cayo La Boca: on and around

Within 15 km: 4 farms & plantations, 1 stations & terminals, 1 power plants.

3560 m at 318°: Tunas de Zaza (stations & terminals).

Cayo La Boca: marine life records

984 records of 326 species within 10 km, 1914 to 2017: 956 fish, 17 sharks and rays, 6 molluscs, 4 seabirds and shorebirds, 1 crustaceans. That is 313.2 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Lutjanus, 33 (fish); Haemulon, 32 (fish); Mugil, 23 (fish); Awaous banana, 20 (fish); Halichoeres bivittatus, 14 (fish); Mycteroperca bonaci, 14 (fish); Cephalopholis fulva, 14 (fish); Scarus, 13 (fish); Sparisoma chrysopterum, 11 (fish); Mycteroperca tigris, 10 (fish); Bodianus parrae, 9 (fish); Sparisoma aurofrenatum, 9 (fish).

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

Cayo La Boca: notes

A cay can lie inside a protected area.

Getting to Cayo La Boca

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro de Cayo Blanco de Zaza stands about 7.3 km away.