Cayo Paredón de Lado

Cayo Paredón de Lado: coast and water

4880 m at 258°: Pasa Quebrada el Queche (channel); 7110 m at 251°: Pasa El Almácigo (channel); 12620 m at 282°: Punta Almácigo (point); 15140 m at 234°: Punta La Harina (point); 16240 m at 295°: Punta Colorada (point); 16860 m at 290°: Laguna la Colorada (lagoon); 18280 m at 131°: Punta Bopre (point); 18530 m at 129°: Punta Cayo La Aguada (point).

Cayo Paredón de Lado: islands

3430 m at 195°: Cayo Ramón (islet); 5000 m at 88°: Cayo Paredón Grande (island); 7810 m at 227°: Cayo Salado (island); 10280 m at 123°: Cayo Mosca (islet); 13360 m at 293°: Cayuelo Coco (island); 14940 m at 236°: Cayo Pancho la Vega (island); 18820 m at 240°: Cayo Largo El Coco (island); 20560 m at 196°: Cayo Mojarra (island); 20890 m at 258°: Cayos Las Cayamas (island group); 22740 m at 132°: Cayo Cobo (island); 22900 m at 210°: Cayo Lajiales de Judas (island); 27770 m at 204°: Cayo Judas (island).

Cayo Paredón de Lado: inland

15990 m at 294°: Sol Cayo Coco (hotel); 16750 m at 292°: oasis playa coco (hotel); 18270 m at 294°: Colonial hotel (hotel); 18460 m at 281°: Cayo Coco (settlement); 20320 m at 275°: Be Live Playa Coco (hotel); 22430 m at 250°: La Silla (locality).

Cayo Paredón de Lado: distances

42880 m at 169°: Playa la Mula; 47050 m at 198°: Bolivia; 52840 m at 160°: Playa Guaney; 12040 m at 261°: Jardines Del Rey Airport ; 142500 m at 136°: Port of Nuevitas (port); 47940 m at 284°: Marina Marlin Cayo Guillermo (marina).

Protected: 31370 m at 271°: Reserva Ecológica de Cayo Coco.

Cayo Paredón de Lado: close by

30 m at 333°: Cayo Paredón del Medio (cay); 3430 m at 195°: Cayo Ramón (cay); 3570 m at 149°: Cayo Los Santos (cay); 4430 m at 85°: Cayo Paredón Pelado (cay); 4690 m at 191°: Cayo del Medio (cay); 4900 m at 116°: Cayo Paredón (cay); 5000 m at 88°: Cayo Paredón Grande (cay); 5590 m at 220°: Cayos Las Auras (cay); 5630 m at 220°: Cayo Aura (cay); 6110 m at 252°: Cayo Queche (cay); 6630 m at 86°: Cayo Sigua (cay); 6680 m at 85°: Roca Paredón (cay).

Cayo Paredón de Lado: on and around

Within 15 km: 8 coral reefs, 3 factories & works, 2 marinas, 2 attractions, 1 clinics & polyclinics, 1 stations & terminals.

7480 m at 106°: Paredón pesca (marinas); 14080 m at 290°: Delfinario Cayo Coco (en construcción) (attractions); 14390 m at 291°: Marina Gaviota Bautista (marinas); 14720 m at 282°: Transgaviota Ciego - Camagüey (stations & terminals).

Cayo Paredón de Lado: marine life records

409 records of 134 species within 10 km, 1938 to 2025: 225 fish, 73 seabirds and shorebirds, 59 corals, 16 echinoderms, 13 crustaceans, 6 sharks and rays, 5 marine mammals, 5 molluscs, 3 seagrass and algae, 2 other, 2 sponges. That is 130.2 records per 100 km².

Most recorded: Acropora palmata, 17 (corals); Millepora complanata, 16 (corals); Porites astreoides, 15 (corals); Lutjanus apodus, 13 (fish); Ocyurus chrysurus, 13 (fish); Sterna maxima, 11 (seabirds and shorebirds); Haemulon sciurus, 10 (fish); Acanthurus coeruleus, 10 (fish); Microspathodon chrysurus, 9 (fish); Acanthurus bahianus, 8 (fish); Sparisoma viride, 8 (fish); Haemulon plumierii, 7 (fish).

Months with records, sharks and rays: Apr 4; marine mammals: Feb 2, Sep 3; seabirds and shorebirds: Jan 1, Feb 6, Mar 9, Jul 1, Nov 1.

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

Cayo Paredón de Lado: notes

Land only where a guide allows it.

Getting to Cayo Paredón de Lado

• Navigation: the lighthouse Faro Cayo Paredón Grande stands about 4.8 km away.