Cayo La Vela

Cayo La Vela: coast and water

2010 m at 284°: Boca de Lanzanillo (channel); 5460 m at 267°: Boca Chica (channel); 9960 m at 209°: Punta Tabaco (point); 12460 m at 269°: Cañón del Inglés (channel); 14530 m at 212°: Ensenada de Cayo Vaca (bay); 14570 m at 265°: Cañón de Piedra Alta (channel); 16440 m at 272°: Canalizo Vianero (channel); 17050 m at 196°: Laguna La Pajarera (lagoon).

Cayo La Vela: islands

4130 m at 255°: Cayo Lanzanillo (island); 7050 m at 302°: Cayuelos de Jutías (island group); 9940 m at 126°: Cayo Pajonal (island); 9990 m at 152°: Cayos del Pajonal (island group); 12940 m at 263°: Cayo Los Quitasoles (island); 15850 m at 272°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 17850 m at 262°: Cayo Tumba la Olla (island); 19950 m at 256°: Cayos de la Enfermería (island group); 20570 m at 274°: Cayo Hachuela (island); 21330 m at 280°: Cayo Mariposa (island); 27100 m at 287°: Cayo Bicho (island); 27380 m at 292°: Cayo del Cristo (island).

Cayo La Vela: inland

13100 m at 217°: Dolores (locality); 18890 m at 199°: Estero de Granadillo (locality); 19210 m at 230°: Batey Lazo (locality); 21560 m at 183°: Terrenos Central Nazábal (locality); 21900 m at 169°: Carratala (locality); 22720 m at 210°: Estero Peralta (locality).

Cayo La Vela: distances

19340 m at 235°: Playa Piñón; 19550 m at 175°: Playa Nazábal; 22250 m at 180°: Emilio Córdova; 53750 m at 201°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 112810 m at 219°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 114450 m at 219°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Cayo La Vela: close by

360 m at 306°: Cayuelos de Cayo la Vela (island group); 2340 m at 203°: Cayos Careneros (island group); 4130 m at 255°: Cayo Lanzanillo (cay); 5210 m at 188°: Cayos Las Balsas (island group); 7050 m at 302°: Cayuelos de Jutías (island group); 7540 m at 181°: Cayo Alto (cay); 7860 m at 201°: Cayo Isidoro (cay); 8080 m at 249°: Cayo Monte Seco (cay); 9690 m at 237°: Cayo Versagua (cay); 9800 m at 282°: Cayos Jutías (island group); 9930 m at 260°: Cayo Culebra (cay); 9940 m at 126°: Cayo Pajonal (cay).

Cayo La Vela: marine life records

884 records of 160 species within 10 km, 1939 to 2017: 376 fish, 265 sponges, 236 corals, 4 other, 3 echinoderms. That is 281.4 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Demospongiae, 64 (sponges); Spirastrellidae, 40 (sponges); Orbicella faveolata, 36 (corals); Acanthurus bahianus, 33 (fish); Stichopathes, 30 (corals); Acanthurus coeruleus, 28 (fish); Haemulon sciurus, 27 (fish); Haemulon flavolineatum, 26 (fish); Sparisoma viride, 24 (fish); Millepora complanata, 23 (corals); Microspathodon chrysurus, 22 (fish); Mycale (Mycale) laevis, 21 (sponges).

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

Cayo La Vela: notes

Land only where a guide allows it.