Cayo Maravillas

Cayo Maravillas: coast and water

1630 m at 152°: Boca de Cañate (channel); 3120 m at 276°: Punta Leña (point); 3390 m at 143°: Boca El Serón (channel); 6790 m at 303°: Canalizo Matahambre (channel); 8190 m at 131°: Cañón de Piedra Alta (channel); 8370 m at 314°: Ensenada de la Glorieta (inlet); 8670 m at 277°: Cabezo Empalizada (shoal); 9200 m at 206°: Punta Frenes (point).

Cayo Maravillas: islands

6500 m at 308°: Cayo Bicho (island); 6850 m at 240°: Cayo Mendoza (island); 7260 m at 155°: Cayo Tumba la Olla (island); 7410 m at 302°: Cayo Iguana (island); 7730 m at 323°: Cayo del Cristo (island); 9090 m at 171°: Cayos de la Enfermería (island group); 9770 m at 126°: Cayo Los Quitasoles (island); 11260 m at 293°: Cayos Redondos (island group); 12400 m at 118°: Cayo Culebra (island); 14240 m at 304°: Cayo Esquivel del Sur (island); 14290 m at 277°: Cayos Empalizada de Barlovento (island group); 14900 m at 309°: Cayo Esquivel del Norte (island).

Cayo Maravillas: inland

6870 m at 240°: Estación Concha (railway station); 12360 m at 209°: Palma Sola (locality); 12970 m at 225°: El Dorado (settlement); 13270 m at 167°: Playa Uvero (settlement); 14320 m at 221°: Júcaro (locality); 14810 m at 211°: Santa Isabel (locality).

Cayo Maravillas: distances

7210 m at 230°: Isabela de Sagua; 9300 m at 236°: Playa de Punta Gorda; 11850 m at 192°: Playa Colorado; 54320 m at 178°: Abel Santamaria International Airport ; 104760 m at 208°: Port of Cienfuegos (port); 106330 m at 209°: Marina Marlin Cienfuegos (marina).

Protected: 25650 m at 228°: Mogotes de Jumagua.

Cayo Maravillas: close by

490 m at 212°: Cayo Mariposa (cay); 2760 m at 176°: Cayo Hachuela (cay); 3410 m at 298°: Cayo de la Cruz (cay); 3660 m at 41°: Cabezo de Canaete (reef); 4200 m at 252°: Cayo Palomo (cay); 4540 m at 250°: Cayo Paloma (cay); 5630 m at 357°: Cabezos de Maravillas (reef); 5840 m at 308°: Cayo Tunas (cay); 6110 m at 127°: Cayos Dromedarios (island group); 6330 m at 172°: Nikolis M (reef); 6420 m at 231°: Vista al Mar (fishing); 6500 m at 308°: Cayo Bicho (cay).

Cayo Maravillas: 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.

6540 m at 231°: Paladar la Estrella (cuban cuisine & lechón); 6680 m at 231°: Marinas & Náutica Marlin Isabela (marinas); 6960 m at 232°: La Casona (historic & heritage); 7380 m at 231°: Concha (Isabela) (stations & terminals).

Cayo Maravillas: 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 Maravillas: notes

Land only where a guide allows it.

Getting to Cayo Maravillas

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Cristo stands about 6.8 km away.